skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stallman himself said he wasn’t autistic[1], so this is really a case of his fans inventing a diagnosis to protect someone who doesn’t deserve it, smearing millions of innocent people in the process. It’s really indefensible. And one of the most frustrating things about bullshit like “RMS can’t help himself because of his autism” is that bullshit never goes away no matter how definitively it is debunked.

I also never suggested that if he did have autism that somehow I would be any more sympathetic. What I am frustrated with is ignorant commenters on Hacker News deciding it’s psychologically easier for them to invent lies and insult people with autism than it is to have an honest reckoning with a hero’s ugly legacy.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2551458/asperger-s-oxy...

> "During a 2000 profile for the Toronto Star, Stallman described himself to an interviewer as 'borderline autistic,' a description that goes a long way toward explaining a lifelong tendency toward social and emotional isolation and the equally lifelong effort to overcome it," Williams wrote.

> When I cited that excerpt from the book during the interview, Stallman said that assessment was "exaggerated."

> "I wonder about it, but that's as far as it goes," he said. "Now, it's clear I do not have [Asperger's] -- I don't have most of the characteristics of that. For instance, one of those characteristics is having trouble with rhythm. I love the most complicated, fascinating rhythms." But Stallman did acknowledge that he has "a few of the characteristics" and that he "might have what some people call a 'shadow' version of it."
Slander, pretty much.

Fortunately, there's this review of the facts[0].

[0]: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/
It is just sequencing 16s RNA. You can run several hundred on an Illumina sequencer, you just need enough samples.
Sure! The response to someone who is deliberately offensive and someone who habitually offends people by accident should be different, and I don't think anyone denies that. But that's not an argument for doing nothing in response to someone who habitually offends people by accident.
>> I have never in my life seen so much hostility generated by good intentions as we are seeing now during this woke revolution.

The "woke" don't actually have good intentions. There are several motivations, but good intent just seems to be an excuse for the hostility you mention.
It's like all the folks here who disbelieve the experts about covid. Same thing.
Whether they can control it?
One is someone with a diagnosed mental health disorder(s), and one is just that: an ass.
So what? One of those CEO's was convinced he could build a better rocket without having any experience with rocket science, and he did. Why not ventilators?
it's very easy to order the responses once you received them, it's a different problem from the original one, parallel sorting doesn't depend on the order, every chunk is ordered independently and returned to the caller, unless you mean sorting the list in place (mutating the list) which is not supported in Erlang
Here's another review[0] of the events.

[0] https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/

A character assassination campaign, and nothing more than that.
California has done somewhat better than Florida overall — and the vast, vast majority of cases in California came from Southern California, where the lockdown and mask rules were largely not followed. California is 40+ million people; it's basically two Floridas. The northern one followed the rules, the southern didn't, and you can see very clearly which way resulted in fewer cases and deaths. Northern California had one of the lowest case rates in the country. Southern California had one of the highest.
But they're not paying the least, they are paying the most (of course, not as much as they are legally obligated to pay).

Moreover correctly paying your taxes starts to get really difficult the more and more money you make: income starts to come from many different sources and figuring it all out is super difficult.

If we drastically simplified the tax code, I think the IRS would collect more taxes, people would pay more taxes, and high earners could easily calculate their tax burden without hiring very expensive professionals. This would unequivocally be a net win, though entrenched interests would never allow it to happen.
I think that's rather naive. A lot of work engineers do involves either keeping systems afloat or minor alterations that in cohort lead to a new feature but each minor alterations itself not doing anything meaningful. Evaluating individual or even team impact in those cases is _hard_. Yes, product people or in some cases managers do it but most of their numbers come with five asterisks to cover their asses as they are largely bs.

There are definitely people who are impactful enough and deserve to make bold "I" statements but they are in the vast minority.
"Only discuss the topic I wish you to discuss" is definitely an interesting take.
> But California doesn't want their tax base moving to Texas, so politicians from California want federal laws that make it more expensive to do business in Texas. They want to deprive lower cost of living areas of their competitive advantage.

And politicians from Texas want to institute tariffs on China and other countries with lower labor costs than Texas. Everyone is playing the same game to maintain their outsized share of the pie.
The whole deal[0] was a character assassination campaign.

[0] https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/
> poor (less than 1m)

the top 10% globally is 30k... which is low income for Americans.

Americans bitching about the 1% is laughable.
Back in 2013, the biomedical community was very concerned about how blithely uBiome had decided they didn't need an IRB, despite doing things that were pretty clearly research.

Turns out that was just a herald of things to come.
> You don't really need US-made goods, just buy the ones made in China.

That's right, that's what we're doing. There are better systems than a flat minimum wage like wage boards since they're more flexible, but Australia uses that system a lot and yet also has a $20/hr min wage underlying it. (The Nordics don't have one at all because they use sectoral bargaining contracts. Should probably get one though.)

> This is patronizing. If something is really worse for people then why are they doing it?

Personal responsibility doesn't exist at the level of societies. Sometimes you just get scammed, and it takes a while to get out of the situation if you do. Banning bad jobs is useful the same way banning any other scam is.

> Replace unemployment with a UBI. Now you don't need a minimum wage.

UBI substitutes for unemployment here but it's not the same because the funding source is different. In particular the one for UBI doesn't exist. The US did just pass basic income for childcare though.

UBI does not substitute for minimum wage though, because it doesn't have the effect of eliminating bad jobs. In practice min wage seems to have other positive effects from this like forcing employee productivity to increase faster; in the limiting case with a monopsony employer it even increases employment because they have no other pressure to offer a market clearing wage.
One is a personality trait and the other is an anatomical or physiological deviation from normal human development.
This extension is a godsend https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
He didn't work with or for RMS longer than any other programmer, there are many who have longer. Gerald J. Sussman is a programmer and hired him at MIT and is still on the board of FSF and still working with him, that is over 40 years. And RMS has grown over the years. This is from over 20 years ago.
Yeah, like automobiles and cell phones before they were good or cheap.
These general techniques work for tech professionals. My wife is a historian. She needed to take a bunch of giant pdfs and split them into separate one page files. Easy enough to script with python. 10 minutes of coding. Hours of dependency hell.

So now in order to do some simple scripting I need to run strace and look for syscalls? Why would anybody just know this? Oh, and she has a windows machine. So this is precisely the sort of useless advice that is widely available online. "Don't worry, you can always just learn how your entire dependency management package works on the inside and interacts with your operating system if you run into problems scripting something for your job" is not helpful. It is the sort of thing that makes people flee screaming from the very idea of doing anything more general-purpose than excel.
I knew the maintainer of GNU libtool and I remember him getting randomly fired by Stallman one day because he was a macOS user, and therefore not motivated enough to support free software OS uses.
[edit: I got the context wrong, see children comments]

The commented pedophilia was the allegated one of Marvin Minsky with a 17 yo girl, whose coercion (by Epstein) into sexual acts was maybe (probably, in the words of RMS) not made clear to Minsky (nor the age).

I precise, because 17 yo is a quite mature age for sexual activity (and more so for a girl than for a boy, because the sexual maturity of the body happens earlier), and the context of being presented by Epstein may make it not obvious that there was slavery.

So, even if I do not condone, I can see where the position of RMS comes from.
Not to my knowledge and he most likely never will. Attacking traditional social values is more important to some people than Free Software. Having people with stronger beliefs about unrelated issues that take precedence over the goals of the organization is a recipe for disaster and ultimately failure. I suspect RMS agreed to concessions such as allowing GNU to go in a direction where these unrelated political issues will increasingly drive decision making and force out major contributors who disagree with them. Time will tell.
> movie props, collect stamps, let authors sign their books

All those things have intrisinc values. If tomorrow the market for movie props, stamps and signed book went straight to 0, the owners would keep those objects for themselves, they have sentimental values, not just financial.

If the market for NFTs goes to 0, you have a worthless GUID, cool.
Oh bless your heart.
Then why would someone choose to be an ass - or generally choose to be unlikable?
such a "John Cleese" move. they guy is a funny factory.
South Africa sells AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to other African countries
The difference is that as bad as the F-35 is, cancelling it would have huge repercussions. On the other hand, the SLS could be cancelled tomorrow and nobody outside of NASA and the contractors would even notice.
YC was one of initial investor, either they were part of the scam or not, who knows.
For what it is worth, the total COVID death count for under 18 in the US is 200. This includes children with serious risk factors eg cancer, immune disorders, etc
Nonsense. Bitcoin solved this problem 12 years ago. You can't copy and paste a BTC. You can't copy and paste an NFT.
> Stallman is a bastion of software freedom

In my judgement, he has done marginally more good than harm. Under his leadership the FSF has had only limited impact. Mirroring his own behavior, it has instead often wasted money and good will tilting at windmills instead of of effecting change.

I support the ideals of software freedom, but I do not support the FSF or Richard Stallman. He was key to getting the ball rolling decades ago, but has mostly been a distraction and impediment since then. Other projects, such as Debian and Mozilla, have made far larger contributions over the past couple decades.
The point is that an NSArray can only hold classes (an Objective-C limitation), so if the element type is not a class, it can't be an NSArray.
“ but what about” - a quote from your reply: does that ring a bell to you about why your argument seems specious at best or misleading at worst?
Right, but in this case, you're buying a number provably owned by John Cleese, as part of a performance piece where he sold a token representing the Brooklyn Bridge, as a commentary on the entire concept of selling numbers. It's meta, it's brilliant, it's popular, (it's absolutely going to devalue the other Brooklyn Bridge NFT I own because mine was minted first but this one's more popular), it's ART.
That's fair. I also later learned that the title didn't explicitly mention model size at first, and I would have probably raised similar complaints had I seen that.
Workers in a given ant colony - really, daughters of the same mother in any hymenopteran species, all of which use haplodiploid sex determination - are more closely related than siblings in species with fully diploid sex-determination systems, but they're not clones.
I have mixed feelings about the book. On one had, I can see the value in all of the laws but on the other hand it seems that the author tries to force laws around past events and just make the laws "fit" the narrative.

It got a little boring after like 20 or something, so I just stopped reading it.
Just because there are people who don’t understand what “free as in beer” means doesn’t mean that people should stop teaching them what it means.
If you're young, ask yourself: is your time better spent on playing the interview game trying to get into a FAANG exactly like one million other people? Or doing something that feels more uniquely yours but can't guarantee retirement at 40?

The first path has only one road to success. If you keep trying but don't pass the bar, you may be depressed because the challenge here is a purely external one — you need to constantly meet rigid expectations set by faceless others.

The second path has many hidden roads to success, and the challenge is an internal one — you need to discover something about yourself that could eventually unlock value to others too.

I took the latter path and still ended up at a FAANG in my late thirties without a CS degree. It's been a more rewarding life than if I had postponed all my dreams by twenty years.
1. >>> but ensuring that the website could be navigated well using a screen reader. <<<

That was my experience too

2. >>> The tough part of it was it being a subjective process. No one can tell you if the final experience was "correct" or not.<<<

Also ran into this problem. Our solution was to hire a non-sighted person (who uses screen reader in their daily/everyday life) to test the Apps. It made me realize that 'expert' users of screen reader software do not use it the way a sighted user like me would think it's to be used.

3) We only use the non-sighted person when we do 'major' overhauls or once every few years when we do a comprehensive round of Accessibility testing. For the accessibility tests we do as part of releasing any new feature (no matter how small), I've had to train myself and learn better how to do screen reader testing. Still not close to being an expert but I'm much better at it than a few years before.
One problem here: line height should be unit-less. Use just a number and that number will become a multiple of the font value so font-size 2rem line-height:1.3 don’t use units
Andy Wingo was and still is right, and more people should say it publicly. What he wrote then had been widely believed among many free software developers - including many who had worked closely with the FSF and with GNU - for years, but the public worship of RMS was too strong for any of the people doing the actual work to say anything without getting seen as traitors to the movement by people like you. He and the other GNU maintainers who wrote that statement called out an accurate problem, and the free software movement would have been stronger had RMS and the FSF listened.

Every single thing that RMS refused to compromise on has been a weakness for the cause of software freedom. RMS didn't compromise on his technical vision for GNU's kernel, and the HURD barely works today. RMS didn't compromise on allowing GCC to have an IR, and LLVM, a weak-copyleft compiler, has caught up. RMS didn't compromise on his personal unwillingness to use non-free JS on the web and basically decided to ignore the web entirely as a result, and it was basically an abandonment of setting any strategic direction for the free software movement re the web. We have a whole generation of folks who are ready to insist that "open source" means anything on GitHub, license or no license.

We could have had a victorious free software movement. What we got was a cult of personality.
> We need an international Tree Planting Day.

Done!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbor_Day
>thoughtless / mean / an ass

This is precisely what people with autism tend to be like because of the difficulty people with autism have empathizing with others and seeing things from other people's points of view.
Accuracy and numbers of parameters don't scale linearly together. It varies widely depending on exactly what you are measuring accuracy on as well etc.
But a very approximate rule of thumb would be to say that accuracy scales with the log of the parameter count (for the same architecture).
It gets even worse than that for Lordstown (from the same source above):

"The Hindenburg report said a recently announced $735 million deal for 14,000 trucks was to a purported buyer who doesn’t operate a vehicle fleet and is based out of a small apartment building in Texas.

The company received unwelcome publicity in January when a prototype vehicle caught fire 10 minutes into its initial test drive."

Smelling increasingly like fraud.
Just wondering what the source is for Stallman being autistic? I see people saying he's autistic, and I even see people saying he has called himself "borderline autistic", but that's not quite the same thing as a diagnosis. I don't see a reliable source making that claim; even Wikipedia says nothing about it (except a backstage talk item about there not being any source on the claim).

I admit, the circumstantial evidence is, uhh, indicative, but I don't see it being a matter of public record. Then again, I only did six and a half minutes of internet research, though, and I could be wrong, thus the question mark.
“Knowing what you are doing” — yes, and what they are doing is throwing more labor, more machines and more electricity at the problem than either Google or Facebook ever would.

Major cloud providers got off “commodity enterprise” over a decade ago. There’s a reason for that.... the stuff is just bad.
Well, that is pretty damning. If he says he's not autistic then people should stop saying he is. I don't think anyone here is trying to insult others with autism, though.
How can you tell a difference between something that “worked fine” and the natural seasonality of the virus?

How can you measure the effectiveness of “quite a lot of things” over “everything?”
California’s robust budget will get another $26 billion from new COVID-19 stimulus

- https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-11/californ...
If Bob buys a movie prop lightsaber for $10,000 and a fully quality replica costs $200, then Bob has only bought $200 worth of something he can display, loan out, or hold. The remainder of the price is made up of the intangible connection to the film and artists.
Not hugely, but yes. I tend to think of GPT as a style of architecture with consistent themes and major features, but varying minor features and implementation details. Off the top of my head, I believe the most important difference is that GPT-3 alternates global and local attention while GPT-2 is all global attention.

The two published GPT-Neo models follow GPT-3's lead but the repo lets the user pick whether to use global or local attention layers.
I think this view of Stallman was quite widespread in the 70s, or at the very least much more widespread than it is today.

I read in The Netherlands in the 70s child porn was quite readily available. See also “Chick arrest”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography_laws_in_th...

In this period there were even politicians openly advocating for allowing sex with children on television: https://youtu.be/nSMpAhQRDB8 (Dutch spoken)

It seems to me often the people advocating for allowing sex with children would be left-oriented.

https://timeline.com/children-of-god-5245a45f6a2a

However I believe most decent human beings these days realize sex with children can be very harmful to children.

Perhaps this is a background Stallman grew up in.
Not quite. Someone vandalized his name card adding the hot ladies part and took a picture. That was never him. And you turned the quote "pranced around the tables" to "pranced around on the tables." ... why?
Brooklyn person has contagious Brazilian variant of Covid-19, Cuomo says
very cool! side question but is there a complete guide to learn PyTorch with Colab?

I tried to learn ML a few years ago but gave up because I couldn't install CUDA on my machine for some reason. The landscape seems to change dramatically.

I am interested in transformers in particular completing incomplete images like what https://openai.com/blog/image-gpt/ does, is there a project that implements that and can let me start training?

I'm excited but I just get overwhelmed as to where I need to focus my attention on.

My goal is to utilize something like image-gpt but for a more narrow domain (ex. only dealing with cats), how can I build my knowledge and skills towards that goal?

Much thanks for your answers I'm really looking to learn these stuffs
Wizards of the Coast are making a game. I don’t doubt that the secondary market eventually changed how they operated but at base, they are a game company. That’s ethically different from someone that sets out to create a Ponzi scheme.
Lovely scene. Thank you for sharing!
Wether or not you like them.
It's amazing how this article presents a lot of information without saying anything much about them.
In truth it's closer to this

"To get people to switch to X competitor, it needs to not be better, but 10 times better"

I am sure I hacked that quote up badly but, the point is, sure plan9 is cool, but it wasn't better-er enough to get people to switch.

Instead people brought a lot of plan9 concepts TO other systems. That's a good thing.
Ah! Same. I was wondering if others hadn't been driven to buy some sort of espresso machine. I bought one for $70 from Kmart, and loved it. Then I got a fancy grinder second hand and it improved the espresso a lot. So then I upgraded to a second hand DeLonghi Icona after a while. It was only $50 because it leaked, but I fixed that with a screwdriver and pliers.

Now considering "fancy Italian".
How does it compare? Targeting engineering laptops to steal fighter jet plans seems completely different then recreating a weaving plant.
Is it ableist to suggest that blind people don't make good air traffic controllers, that paralysed people don't make the best bicycle couriers or that a deaf person is perhaps not a suitable music critic? Everyone works within the limitations of our abilities, and some people are dealt difficult hands - but reality doesn't care about your feelings.
I'm almost that age and I haven't committed a single act of serious fraud or white collar crime. What - am- I doing with my life.
even if the 80 yr old has 20 yrs of life left, it still means that a 16 yr old is worth at least 3 80 yr olds.

and the 80 yr olds do not contribute to the economy or work, and is indeed a "burden" (sad to say, but they can't really sustain themselves without external resources, as their economic value output is zero). The 16 yr old will likely contribute to society for 40 years at least.

i'm not saying the lockdowns weren't necessary - they were. I'm saying that the costs are high, and society has asked the young to make a sacrifice for the elderly, and yet has not gotten much in return. At least some token appreciation for them is the least that can be done. After all, we praise the servicemen/women for their war efforts, well into their years, and i don't see this as being that different.