skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to see Patrick address the fact that he now works as an eng manager at Stripe, in the context of a lot of his previous writing like this piece.

For all he has written about side projects and building sustainable lifestyle businesses, I bet he makes more in a single year now than he ever did from any of those projects. Not that that negates his previous advice at all, it’s great that people can figure out a way to make a good living by minimizing their work hours, or not having an employer, or whatever makes them happiest.

And maybe I am projecting based on my own journey a little bit, but it sounds like the place he was at in his own life 5-10 years ago and his bad experiences some pretty toxic Japanese megacorps, probably made him overly pessimistic on the prospects of a 9-5 tech job in general.

But the opportunities that arose over the past decade, and appear to still exist for the foreseeable future, at large public or nearly public tech cos are just incredible in terms of the level of return employees can get for relatively low risk. And I think most young people starting out still don’t fully realize this. The numbers you see on levels.fyi are very real, and on top of that these stocks have been doubling every few years. You can pretty reliably, say, work hard for 20 years and then retire at age 40 with 10 million dollars in savings. For the vast majority of people, there’s just no way a side hustle can compete with that. Any theoretical arguments about labor vs capital don’t really make sense for the top paid 1% of labor.
Patrick uses his tech skills in service of marketing guru with a Personal Brand. What works for him isn't for everyone.
Looks like he moved it to the archive section and dated it 2006 to show it is a very outdated view. Stallman is a very honest person and won’t try to hide the past.

This comment used to be on one of the main info pages of the site.
not really.

'boys will be boys' doesn't assert that 'boys' get away with whatever they want because they are neuro-divergent, it asserts that gender allows for additional privilege.

>Just because somebody is different doesn't mean they can be a creep

For the sake of argument : what if that person has neurological quirks which disallow 'non-creep' , to use your parlance, behavior?

To take the example even further , it's illegal with fine attached to say curse words on certain beaches in the United States. Is it reasonable to fine an individual with Tourette Syndrome when they scream expletives on such a beach?
So I would want to include a big corpus like GPT-3 or this newfangled "Neo" thing but still have it trained to respond to our own customers based on 200k email passages.

How to create a hybrid?
Apologize for what? What in his statement should be apologize for? It's an op-ed that the author himself qualifies with a fairly clear sense of wat exists "on the ground" and his opinion about it, both positive and negative.

Frankly, Stallman has been a boat-anchor to his own cause more than much else for a while, and he is IMHO a vile little imp; his poor hygiene, both physical and emotional, and his chronic id-salving, went through their mileage before the current millennium started, let alone a few decades in.
Sure, but is still their accomplishment. The scribbling in the notebook would never receive eventual recognition unless something remarkable happened.
Then there's the build dependencies of all the libraries. And of the compilers. It's quite possible a complete list would go all the way back to the original Unix or CP/M, passing through multiple architectures along the way. The tool you want can't exist in the world we have, I think. Projects like http://bootstrappable.org might help get us there.
I truly applaud the idea. More hackers should work on schemes to support bioremediation. However, qualifications are important. For example, fruit tree orchards are typically monocultures or near monocultures, use lots of water, encourage fertilizer and pesticide use, and are rarely planted in natural distribution. A strong indicator is that, after planting, if you have to "take care of it" it's in the wrong place.
If you want to make as little money as a civil engineer does, go for it.
Ah, yes that was rather Anglocentric of me, apologies. And that's a lousy situation--any idea why that's the case?
Thanks--this is most helpful! :)
I don't think it's unreasonable to interpret "I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children" as a suggestion that there are circumstances under which paedophilia is OK. Suggesting that someone doing so is willfully, blatantly lying seems like an unsupported claim.
Good. High income people get almost nothing for the amount that they have to pay. Some day we’ll have flat fee city states for remote workers who will only have to pay for what they use. How can you justify taking so much when a person’s customers, education, employer, etc. are all located outside of the region that they live in? What is so special about the people living nearby that makes them deserving of another guy’s money even if their lives are entirely independent? It makes no sense...
Its strange to me that you think RMS has to "prove" that he's autistic (and therefore deserving of sympathy) - but decades of activism and writing about progressive topics (workers rights, trans rights, ending discrimination, improving IP laws, etc) can get undone in a matter of days by anonymous and uncorroborated accusations, and that's totally fine.

You want him to get onstage with his therapist or something?

Look, I'm not exactly Stallman's biggest fan, but everything I read about his firing made it seem like the FSF had a knee-jerk reaction to bad publicity instead of hearing his side of the story and conducting a fair investigation. His reinstatement to the board seems to support the idea that the people there really did want him there but were scared of the mob.
Honestly asking, what's the difference between someone being neurodivergent and just thoughtless / mean / an ass?
I mean I can imagine Apple doing the same stuff. The CEOs of Theranoses get there because they have an incredible ability to convince those people that they are working at a future Apple.
I think it's supposed to be some kind of latent vector space where the coordinate maps to the sounds' timbre. So in theory, you can move seamlessly between sounds. But I seem to only be able to snap to nearest sound.
Edit: they use t-SNE for the embedding so that is why it is discrete. But if they used something like an autoencoder, then you could have a smooth continuum and interpolate between say a dog bark and a billiards clack.
All those lifestyle side projects are why he's an ebg manager at Stripe now.
There are many studies on the Israeli population post-vaccination, since so many Israelis have finished the two-dose course of the Pfizer vaccine.
There are even some studies on the British variant there, since that is now responsible for >50% of infections. TL;DR: the Pfizer vaccine is extremely effective against the British variant as well.
Thanks for sharing that!!
Welp thats it just rejoin the infinite job hunt because of a weird thing at work

“Hun, I think its time to be realistic and provide for us”

But people on the internet said every unideal thing at work means I should get a new job
I’m not sure that 5-6 figures of debt is worth pushing you “out of your comfort zone”.

You can get that for a lot cheaper by traveling and staying in hostels (and also become more well rounded!)
> Clearly intent and context matters a lot.

This applies to old laws in the US, and not many other countries.

In France, you're guilty until proven innocent.

And in China (and many other regions governed by Chinese people), you're strictly liable regardless of intent.

And now in the US, most new laws do not consider intent, just strict liability.
> KiCad copied this feature, and I was frustrated by the "inconsistent behavior" of the selection tool for years until someone finally explained it to me.

I wonder how many people (myself included) learned of this behavior from this post...
The causes are of different classification and require different responses.

When a cause is systemic it maybe with some natural variance and within what realistically deem acceptable, depending on where we set the bounds. While others maybe special cases and require detailed study to understand.

Blindly setting outcome goals without understanding the system is folly.
I think you're misunderstanding the question.

Many of the components of "back to normal" are about voluntary compliance with disease control measures. For example, I currently hang out with friends only outdoors or in very small groups - not because I couldn't do more, or because I'm afraid to, but because I'm hoping to prosocially blunt the spread of disease. Right now, I've already started going to restaurants (although I was never a big restaurant guy to begin with); I plan to start hosting and attending parties a few weeks after I've been vaccinated, and I plan to stop wearing a mask in public once Covid vaccines become as available as flu vaccines in my local area.

I'm very open to suggestions that it might make sense to wait a little longer before partying or taking off my mask. I'm sure other people are too. But the burden of proof is on you (or others who think the same way) to explain why this is important and what the timeline is. If your position is just a lecture about what we "need" to adjust to, or an assertion that life might never be normal again, that's not really going to get anyone to comply.
> BDSM relationship more than a traditional relationship

BDSM relationship are probably more communicative and saner than traditional relationship. Interactions with big-tech is probably closer to casting couch.
I encourage you to read what he actually said rather than digest it through hit pieces, because it’s not even controversial.

He said that, hypothetically, if someone had sex with a victim of sex trafficking unkowingly - that is, the sex part was knowingly, but the victim of sex trafficking part was unknown, then it would not be fair to charge the man with rape.

If I kidnap a woman, sell her has a sex slave, and threaten her and her family that if she doesn’t walk up to you in a bar and act interested, and you mistake her for a willing participant, this obviously does not make you a rapist.

I don’t know if this is a willful distortion of what he said or what would motivate such a smear campaign, or if every is just shockingly bad at reading comprehension. But what he said was correct, and we all know it.
I mean you need to read Marcus Aurelius and Kierkegaard and stuff to learn from the best thinkers on developing a purpose in life. You can do that in a class labeled ENG or LIT or PHL, the designation is hardly relevant, but lots of engineering degrees simply don’t assign this kind of reading.
Let’s be real though, the honest students are getting far more out of this than the ones cheating. I promise you the second your ass enters the work world nobody will give a shit what percentile of your class you graduated in or what your SAT/GMAT/LSAT/MCAT scores were. It’s still ultimately all about who you know, and those kids likely have a cushy job awaiting them back home. The honest students get the knowledge and connections with their peers.

Foreign students are absolutely a grift at US universities, though I suspect COVID may have ended that one. A great many will come to the US hoping to land a job but most will go home with a name-brand degree and a stake in the moderately successful family business.
It's not just neurodivergence, but its that he recognizes where he jabs people and pretty much admits he doesn't care. I once had this conversation about with with ESR and I remember him saying "RMS doesn't care about the 'social overhead' of most person to person interactions" and so he kind of does his own normative preferences, thinking that because he finds them ideal, that others shouldn't be offended....but then he seems offended by an infinitely long list of things, and his intellect seems to treat this asymmetry as one big blind spot.

I've listened to him be rude to former co-workers (one seemingly on the basis that she was a woman in a technical role) and an absolute one man clown rodeo at various trade show events.

His philosophical brilliance has always impressed me, his personal presence is like rotting offal in the sun. He doesn't get the benefit of being remembered for the former when he puts in so much effort to broadcast the latter.
Haha.

I bought my car in San Diego and drove across the country to Florida. I recently did a trip up to NY/VT and back (to FL).

I do smaller, random weekend trips. I drove to Jacksonville and back this weekend. I do often drive around the Tampa area, for fun.

Regarding gas, thanks for reminding me to do the calculation, heh.

Is it worth it? I'll do the calculation and get back to you :)

I left my job in November, so I don't view it as a commitment. I just drive for fun.
Why should they apologize? Everything they say is true.

GNU software absolutely has been stagnating for the past 2 decades under Stallman's leadership. It is a little known fact that in 2005, there was an offer to merge the LLVM project into GCC, and assign the entire copyright to GNU. The patches to do so were even submitted. [0]

They were rejected [1], because GNU wasn't interested in producing a modular compiler. They thought that if the compiler was allowed to be modular, then it might be used by proprietary software behind their backs.

But it turns out that modular compilers are generally quite useful, even for huge quantities of FOSS software. So the LLVM project continues, outside of GNU, and here we are 15 years later and essentially all academic research, and all new tooling development, happens in the LLVM ecosystem. Massive self-inflicted wound.

And yet, the stonewalling [2] and bridge-burning [3] [4] continued, long past the point of rationality. Continuing to object to development of useful tools even after the damage was done. At this point, just pissing off a lot of people who were interested in doing the work to help improve the usefulness of GCC.

And not limited to this topic, either. Such as when Stallman decided to leverage his "veto power" in opposition to removing an abortion joke from the glibc manual, against the consensus of nearly all of the glibc core team, despite not having contributed to glibc himself in years. [5]

And if I was interested in continuing to dig through mailing list archives, I could probably pull out a bunch more examples.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU4MzE

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...

[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00...

[3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00...

[4] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00...

[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/753646/
I am not sure if you or a lot of the posters here really understand autism . This is someone with an extremely low emotional iq and an extreme emotional difference.
http://archive.is/y0Fm9
But after someone read it they spoke to him about it and he realized he was wrong and published a correction right along side it and that was many years ago. You should have mentioned that. If he hadn't said it publicly, and only said it in private to people, that wouldn't have happened. Is that better? I don't think so. Free speech creates counter speech and changes people's minds.
Some of the people are hired into the program right out of college for two years. Most of these people are told that they should look for work elsewhere at the end.

(Other people are just hired and are not in the program.)

It's very competitive, so people work hard to try to make the cut.

In the US, if you make that cut, you have a chance to get promoted to Vice President, then Managing Director, then Partner.

The pay varies depending on your performance and the financial results of your part of the company and the company as a whole that year. Some people think a Managing Director can make about $1M per year, and a Partner can make about $5M per year. But no one really knows, and there are a lot of variables. I saw a NYT article that claimed that one particular Partner earned over $50M in one particular year.

I think when people right out of college are working all those hours, they are fighting for a chance to some day become Partner.
This is just giving regular ppl like you (or any meme culture creator) a similar sort of markup that was reserved for the Ralph Lauren's or any stupid designer item whose raw materials were mostly just vapor.

Luxury and self-image and [silent] bragging rights were always part of the economy, now it just also includes lulz, which happen to be much more accessible to create :)
The kid can go outside, go to establishments with friends...
Some context I got from https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallman-and-the-fall-of...:

Stallman was pressured to resign from the board and MIT because of some of these controversies:

- Jeffrey Epstein coerced one of his victims to have sex with Marvin Minsky. In an online thread, Stallman argued that this might not be sexual assault if Minsky didn't realize she was coerced.

- 10 years ago, Stallman claimed that 14 year olds are old enough to consent to sex and it's not pedophilia. He since retracted this claim

- He is generally very weird and doesn't have etiquite. For example, he was invited to a fancy restaurant and then pranced around the tables because he wanted to dance

Overall, Stallman is very unaware of societal expectations, so sometimes he says things ranging from non-PC to outright sexist, albeit unintentionally.

EDIT: Fixed some inaccuracies
Goop sounds so much like poop (=> uBiome), I find the connection appropriate.
You might also want to consider whether the people that have habitual contact with that accident prone person, should in fact be allowed to have contact with that person.
Every time I read something like this, I think of how little the person saying it knows about the conditions of the poor in 18th century France.
GPT-NeoX, which is a model from the same group but using GPUs instead of TPUs, uses techniques from DeepSpeed:

https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox/
I didn't downvote but I think "please don't do X" is really a poor way to frame this opinion. I also don't care much for podcasts and prefer a textual format, but if you think you'd prefer making it a podcast then just make it and theshrike79 and I will find other content to consume. Or maybe it'll be so good and interesting that we'll just listen to it anyway!

Deciding to start on such a project is really cool IMO, and I think if I ever attempted to do something like that I'd really find it very demotivating if the feedback I got was "no wait, not like that". But that's just me.
Theranos’ story is unbelievably bizarre and I encourage everyone here to read about it.

The fact that Kissinger was on Theranos’ board blows my mind every time I remember it.
> I gave up on Eagle

You saved yourself a lot of money since it's cloud (monthly payments) now.
I learned this rather well studying abroad in Ireland. I got a final grade of 92 in a class on protein modeling, which in the UK/Irish grading system is really high.

The professor asked me if I had taken the class before.

I hadn't, but the exam was all short answer and multiple choice. Which was very different from the long-form work most of his students did, but absolutely in an American student's wheelhouse.

I was okay in the class. What I was really, really good at was the test.
>”Unreal 4 will have...”

Unreal Engine 5 is coming...
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For those who do not know RMS personally: "I worked for RMS longer than any other programmer. ... This was an own-goal for RMS. He has had plenty of opportunities to learn how to stfu when that’s necessary. ... I can confirm the unfortunate reality that RMS’s behavior was a concern [in the 1990s], and that [Marvin Minsky's] protection was itself part of the problem. He was never held to account; he was himself coddled in his own lower-grade misbehavior and mistreatment of women. He made the place uncomfortable for a lot of people, and especially women. ... RMS’s mere presence on the scene in this way has served to make it harder to deal with other cases of bad leaders’ bad behavior. It is time for the free software community to leave adolescence and move to adulthood, and this requires leaving childish tantrums, abusive language, and toxic environments behind." — Thomas Bushnell https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...
Thanks for your insight. I agree there are some great tools available, but I am still working on a cost effective solution for small business clients. Maybe I should be putting my energy into finding clients with a bigger budget instead. :)
> Your proposal contradicts freedom 0

Not true. The AGPL solves the problem elegantly. IMHO, the FSF compromised its principles by not closing the “running a binary for someone doesn’t count as distributing the software to them” loophole.

Their compromised ethical stance is what has led them to irrelevance.

As it is, GPL is functionally equivalent to BSD licensing for most of the industry (and essentially all of cloud computing).
>Messages are always copied before being inserted into the queue. As wasteful as this may sound it greatly reduces garbage collection (GC) latency as the GC never has to look beyond a single process. Non-copying implementations have been tried in the past, but they turned out to be a bad fit as low latency is more important than sheer throughput for the kind of soft-realtime systems that Erlang is designed to build.

I do so wish there was a reference or link around "tried in the past".
I have the right to attempt to silence or ostracise anyone for anything. Whether or not it’s successful depends on the situation and climate of the world at that time.

He has the right to say whatever he wants to say as well. He wasn’t jailed for it just fired for it. Ask him to suck it up and then everyone here can also do the same thing instead of crying a river.

Also, please try to show a single example of a person who defended pedophilia and ended up not being one? Discussing age of consent with respect to reducing it below 18 sounds like tacit support of the same. Many countries have lower ages, sure, but its not clear to me that this is because they were morally thought through decisions, mere figments of history that people cling to in the name of culture (also many of the decision makers seem happy to have the freedom to have sex with 14 year olds as well I suppose).
Software Transactional Memory: a stairway to lock-free programming heaven?
The URL isn’t supported on outline.com and there’s no citation of the source article in the first few paragraphs. How do I read about it?
Mm just something that you are comfortable in and feels good to be in.

I got a 2018 Camry XSE, so it's got nice comfy leather seats.

Arguably the best thing is having CarPlay. Such a nice UI for listening to podcasts/audio books, texting, calling.
Idk, it seems like all the blogging about those projects and the building of that into a tech influencer persona are why he’s a manager at stripe. And that’s, by definition, not something everyone can do. And it’s certainly not the most direct or easiest way to get into that job.