skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a matter of whether they use his software. It's a matter of, he posts hundreds of posts on his personal blog condemning rape, and they cherry-pick the one post where he argued for a different definition of rape.[0]

He is accused of being transphobic despite asking everyone to "honor their preferences about their gender identity" with respect to pronouns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26584613

After Stallman condemned the rape of a 17 year old girl in the Epstein case, Marvin Minksy had sex with the girl, unaware the girl was being coerced by Epstein. In accordance with the law of Canada and most U.S. states, it is legal to have sex with a 16 year old girl. Nonetheless, the open letter accused him of pedophilia.

The letter also claimed that for thirty years, had an unacceptable way of asking women out on dates. He can be taught a better way to ask women out.
He has never been accused of groping or sexual assault.

The "sexual harassment for decades" Stallman did was asking out women in a creepy way.
The original open letter's Appendix has two true claims (and one false claim I won't address here):

- In 1999, he had a mattress in his office which he slept on. This made some women avoid RMS because they considered it abnormal and creepy.

- In 1985, he told a woman he'd kill himself if he didn't date her.

[0]: Ctrl-F this for "rape": https://web.archive.org/web/20210325013942/https://stallman....
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You don't need to remove all of them? Just get it light enough to float it?
Again? This happened in 2011 also by SW. The recording is still on the liveatc.net forums. That one was ranting about flight attendants. Maybe they need a bigger blinky light when they key up.
Google Reader was the internet.
Ubuntu LTS vote from me
> SQLite doesn't really enforce column types[0], the choice is really puzzling to me.

It's not the worst thing in the world; you're validating on data ingest anyways to prevent sqli, for example, right?
Is it even that easy to get any containers off the ship, without the machinery and infrastructure at ports?

Is it common at all to get containers off a ship outside of docking areas?
There are 20,000 containers on the ship. Assuming you needed to remove 1/4 of those containers to get it to rise far enough to get off of the sand, you need to move 5000 containers.

Assume that it takes 5 minute to connect a bridle to a container, hook it to a helicopter, and move it...and then also assume that the helicopters can run 24/7 and never have to refuel, that they can hot swap in pilots, and that there is never a single problem, you're talking about 25000 minutes, or about 17 days of absolutely non stop running helicopters.

And that only gets you 1/4 of the containers, and it might not even work at all.

(It's not a dumb question, and I'm sure that it was already discussed by the team who is dealing with this. It's just that the scale of what is happening here is restrictive.)
I'm pretty certain if you nuked the container ship you'd solve the first problem - it'd be messy and expensive but if you could explosively throw chunks out of the canal you could probably resume service.

And just imagine how badass the canal would look if we glassed the banks and lined them with some LEDs!

(please don't do this)
Visited this on my phone and it said "No.". I yelped. Turns out there's just an issue with the site on mobile! Still stuck.
It might vary by kernel, filesystem, or shell, but in my experience and confirmed with a quick test: shell redirection does not create a new file/inode.
How does liability work here? Who is liable for all the work required to get the ship dug out? Who keeps the insurance that will pay for all this?
Not even close. This ship is absolutely giant.
Genuine question: why not simply pull its back in the reverse direction it was going, until its front is unstuck?
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You can trust that I don’t need to follow that link, brother.
Most heavy lift helicopters don't really go above 20 tons takeoff weight, while even a 20 foot container has a max allowable weight well above that. Most shipping containers will the 40 footers, so helicopters will probably be a no-go. There's also 20k of them so it would take quite a while.

That said, taking off some containers is a viable option but it'll probably have to wait for a crane ship to arrive.
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A way to prevent this is to create a dataset and reserve n amount of space, typically 10-20% and set it read-only.. before the pool gets full. Then when the pool fills up, you can reduce the reservation to be able to clean up files.
Perhaps Uncle Albert from Only Fools and Horses is driving this one.
Very strange that it was the same ship, very strange!
(200,000 short tons) / (130,000 pounds lifting capacity) =
3,076 Spruce... Geese.
It's been done with Mathematica, which includes a "basic" toolbar with square roots, integrals and the like. There's plenty of room for middle ground between a REPL and emulating a physical calculator.
Needs a counter for ongoing cost. An experienced military logistics person I know estimated yesterday that the bill for this is up to about $40 billion already.
Their margins have been ~3% for the longest time. Don’t know if it’s possible to go lower and still have a business.
IMHO would take weeks to unload the cargo with something like that.
I don't read German, but I can find reports of the same SIZE chip getting stuck on the Elbe and requiring 12 tugs to free it. The ship was called the CSCL Indian Ocean.
You'd also need a helicopter than can lift containers that heavy, which might be a long shot.
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Typically an empty 20 foot shipping container weighs between 1.8-2.2 metric tonnes (about 3,970 - 4,850 lb) and an empty 40 foot shipping container weighs 3.8 - 4.2 tonne (8,340 - 9,260 lb) depending on what kind of container it is. For example, high cube containers tend to be heavier.
This is actually a very interesting story. Two years ago one victim of Epstein said Epstein asked her to have sex with Minsky. She didn't say whether anything happened or if she even had to chance to say anything to Minsky - only that she was asked to do that. Now, on an internal email list at MIT someone was very upset about Minsky. RMS sensibly said we can't conclude from the above statement that anything happened, and if Epstein really wanted anything to happen, he would need to convince the victim to pretend that she really wants it to happen on her own (the implication being that if Minsky had any suspicion she is forced to do it, the probability of his agreeing to such a thing would be low).

At this point one of the participants was appalled and asked RMS if he is aware that the contents of this internal list may leak to the press and if he knows what would happen. He answered[0]:

> The 's' in CSAIL stands for 'science'. The job of scientists is to evaluate evidence and seek truth. We have a social responsibility to do that as well. I hope that we scientists will never evade our social responsibility to seek and defend the truth out of fear that the press will misconstrue our search.

Then someone sent these discussions to the press saying that "Stallman is defending Epstein." Many media outlets published these pieces attributing to Stallman things he didn't say. Most importantly they claimed that his opinion was that the victims were "entirely willing." Nobody ever apologized to him for this and many people still believe this, even on HN.

Moreover, Minsky's wife later said nothing could have happened because they were always together when visiting Epstein's property. But nobody cares anymore, this false story was just used to drown Stallman as many people didn't like him for other things.

[0] https://trisquel.info/files/09132019142056-0001.pdf
~30% of World container traffic goes trough it.

Many bulk carriers exceed Suezmax limits and can't go trough.
That's not exactly the problem here.
I am surprised WIN did not make the short list for OS-lost when disk space is almost gone.

I have been there a couple of times and it is a land of crazy unpredictable behavior.
Is there a reason they couldn't have a smaller crane on board and dump them over the side. Surely even losing the cargo would be cheaper than keeping it blocked at this point?
Not commenting on whether OPs idea is sound or not, however tunefs implies the now less and less used ext4 (many distros are switching to XFS or btrfs :-/). On another note, that limit applies to non-privileged processes only. Some crap running as root will just fill up the disk too.
The reason was, I thought, discussed in the article.

When you actually fill up your disc, many linux commands will simply fail to run, meaning getting out of that state is extremely difficult. Deleting the file means you have room to move files around / run emacs / whatever, to fix the problem.
Somebody get Randall Munroe on the phone - I think we've found the next What-If topic.
Plus a couple of weeks to get the cranes there, I guess.
Maybe. That's a lot of barges. Remember that you then have to go and unload the barges, and there are 20,000 containers.
The pictures I've seen completely hide the ship's bulbous bow. It juts out seemingly like 50 feet from the front of the bow that you can see. It looks like all of that is wedged in the sand
I read that there aren't any tall enough cranes in that area to do it, so they're considering unloading some containers by helicopter.
How about creating a mini-dam surrounding the vessel and raising the water level so it can turn.

Or stopping the current at 90% of the ship and letting it push to the front ( if it's in the right direction), perhaps in combination with gigantic sails ( if there's enough wind) and/or sucking sand/mud from the bottom.
Relevant because "building a full-text search engine" is solved using SQLite just as much as it can be solved by writing Python on top of lxml and py-stemmer.

SQLite is no heavyweight dependency àla Apache Lucene. It also helps that it is bundled in billions of Android and iOS devices.
Hrm change of plans, let's pull a few ICBMs out and set them up on each corner with massive tow lines. We'll get it out the way in an instant... and into low earth orbit minutes later!
That's 90% of the submissions here. Last time I said that I was scolded because "This was precisely the objective of this site"
There was an LWN article about PipeWire [1] a while back. Among the interesting parts of the article was an explanation for the PulseAudio debacle, and why PipeWire likely doesn't have the same problem. Basically, PulseAudio exercised several kernel APIs that had existed in ALSA for a long time, but had not been used widely. Hence it uncovered a ton of bugs in device drivers that were not tested against applications using these function calls before. By now, all those bugs are fixed because PulseAudio is widely used. PipeWire is using mostly the same APIs as PulseAudio and Jack, so it's not going to have the same troubles as PulseAudio.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26327779
Don't be ridiculous. If someone puts emphasis on nonsense, dismissing it is reasonable.
No. The absolute heaviest-lift helicopter, the MI-26, can lift a little over 20 short tons. Most helicopters can carry a ton or two at most.

In comparison, unloaded shipping containers are already a few tons. Loaded ones are all over the place, of course, but max out at around 30.
IBM was at no fault to work with Nazi Germany. What appears wrong in hindsight may not be that clear during those times.

Note: US government funded and fueled Taliban that eventually resulted in 9/11.
Because the momentum of a huge ship dug quite deeply into the sides of the canal quite hard, so it's no longer floating.

It's nowhere close to floating currently, and a ship can't be pulled with arbitrarily large forces without damage.
Hrm - I'm now going to go through life claiming that I've successfully assassinated all of my enemies... At least in an eventually consistent manner.
> In our case, the primary motivation of Rust isn't its safety - we just use it for syntax sugars and ease of extensions (with proc macros).

Fair enough, but then "CXX — ***safe*** FFI between Rust and C++" (emphasis mine) is just not the right library for you, and that is totally ok. It has a niche and your usecase is different, both the library and your usecase are in "the right".

> The motivations in claims unfortunately don't apply to my case:

Is this situation different than what I called out earlier?

> - If for any reason a C++ project integrates Rust in a way that is permanently through an FFI (I can't understand why - maybe there is a really good crate or something), then the development costs to use the unsafe non-ergonomic FFI are worth the effort for this unique situation.
Well, you succeded in killing the relevant discussion in this sub-thread by means of your bloviation. Congrats.
Egypt is losing transit fees.

A typical bulk carrier pays about $200,000 per transit.

51 ships transit the canal each day, on average.

Egypt is losing $10m per day.

Edit: the canal generated $5.85billion in revenue in 2018, or $16million per day.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-egypt-economy-suezcanal-i...
Is that ship abnormally large or something or is this just a super wild coincidence?
Can you do all that while blocking the original request for space?
it's a quarter mile long. You can probably have 10 helicopters working at once while still keeping safe distances.

Each helicopter has a crew of 4 on the boat and 4 on the shore. They hook 4 chains to the 4 corner hoists of each container. Say it takes 1 minutes per container to affix the chains, 1 minute to fly to the sand, 1 minute to unhitch, and 1 minute to fly back. Thats a lot slower than agricultural helicopters, but nobody will be very practiced with this yet, so it'll be slower.

The entire ship could be unloaded with this method in 5.5 days. Perhaps less if not all the cargo needs unloading.

The job could be half done by now...
Apple is a complete walled garden, and plenty of folks have migrated to their phones for example - they actually want an experience that is very predictable and can be trusted. Apple charges HIGH amounts of money as a result of this level of user trust. I also think users are more likely to spend money inside this garden - I know I do because it's much harder to get screwed there. I'll subscribe to an apple app long before I'd do the same on a random website.
I wonder if they could build a dam around the ship and lift it with water.
If you dump the containers over the side, you managed to remove a ship blocking the canal, but now it's blocked by containers.
The worlds highest capacity heavy lift helicopter can lift 44k lbs (russian M-26, estimated to be 20 in working condition). An empty 40 ft. container weighs 9k lbs. With a max loading of 66k lbs gross. The Ever Given has a capacity of 20k TEU, or 10k 40 ft. containers.

Being generous, you could move maybe 5 per hour. Probably 1 per hour would be realistic. But give them the benefit of the doubt and say they could move 20 per hour for some reason, including fuel and maintenance stops.

So assuming that they could work 24 hours per day, they could do 480 containers per day (again assuming that all of the containers are 22k lbs lighter than capacity). They should be able to get this helicopter unloading done in 20 days of around the clock work with a bunch of highly optimistic assumptions.

Plus they have to stay out of the way of the dozens of salvage workers trying to move the actual ship, while operating a soviet era machine in a VERY harsh desert environment with no infrastructure.

If they need the ship to float higher, they would start by removing ballast, fuel, crew water, etc.

Large salvage operations are notoriously expensive, tricky, dangerous, and often don't make sense to outsiders. There's a reason that there's really only about half a dozen firms worldwide that have the expertise and equipment to pull something like this off.
Yeah but you may not need to unload it completely. At some point as the buoyancy improves the tugs become more likely to pull it off.
> His written defenses of "consensual" pedophilia

Just to be clear: (1) he was quoting a newspaper describing an actual study (that was quite shocking, but nevertheless it was a study) that has some strange conclusions, (2) he backed down later and apologized for his previous opinions.
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This sounds interesting. Have you thought of doing a talk or blog article about it?

p.s., I run the SF Bay Area ClickHouse meetup. Sounds like an interesting topic for a future meeting. https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-ClickHouse-Mee...
This may be an unpopular opinion but I think we need to re-think the value of pseudo-anonymity on the net. Free speech means so much more when it is attached to your real identity. In real life your identity is attached to your speech in almost all cases. Why not online too?

Advantages:

-less trolling and extremism in general, people would be less likely to say outlandish things if their comments or submissions were attached to the real identity and reputation.

-less vile content. People would be less likely to post gray area porn on forums like reddit if they had to use their real identity.

-transparency in moderation. If Ghislaine Maxwell is moderating /r/worldnews/ users have a right to know. In general users have a right to know who is moderating popular forums.

Disadvantages:

-perhaps more people would be subject to in real life harassment but this is doubtful if the harassers are also obligated to use their in real life identities on line. Where harassment becomes illegal it is no longer a "moderation" problem. If you write a letter to your local newspaper and it is published under your real name, as they always are, if somebody threatens to attack you over it, that is a legal matter, not a matter for the paper. It should be the same on line...

-perhaps fewer people would be willing to discuss unpopular opinions online if they feared retaliation from a "cancel culture" mob.

The key problems with reddit as a general forum of forums for online discussion, I believe, are:

pseudo-anonymity and lack of transparency in users, mods and admins encourages abuse.

lack of democratic selection or accountability for mods and admins encourages mods who are at odds with a community's general members. If we believe in democracy off-line why not online too.

upvote downvote turns everything into a lowest common denominator popularity contest.

I could go on...but I don't get paid for this...like most of reddits mods and users don't get paid.

There is value to be extracted in user generated text content but reddit is doing it wrong...the site is become more and more extreme of an echo chamber and alienating more and more of its potential user base. Mods are expected to work for "free" so this encourages special interests and disordered people to become mods...

It seems to me reddit is a dumb idea...run by dumb people. I don't get how it became so big with so little competition. What is the barrier to entry to set up a forum?
Dumping things over the side, into the canal? That would rapidly block up the canal even worse.
Unlike YouTube videos, you can download these, even in MP3 format if you just want to listen.
a common one at that
There's been SO MANY Stallman articles the past few days, by this point there's nothing new to add. Everyone is just rehashing the same arguments and there's nothing new or interesting here. There are over TWENTY of these that have hit the front page in the last week. There's plenty of discussion to be had on those if you are looking for input on this development. We don't need a new front page article for each company or organization or blogger trotting out their for/against statement on Stallman at this point.
The carrier can announce a general average [1] which allows it to throw the containers overboard if they believe it will help the ship get moving.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_average
Just in case you are not joking, what do you think blowing up C4 at the side of the ship would achieve?
The site provides a tongue-in-cheek warning for this: "Tornado Guard warnings apply."

https://xkcd.com/937
I am reminded of a tweet that suggested adding a sleep() call to your application that makes some part of it needlessly slow, so that you can give users a reason to upgrade when there's a security fix (it's 1 second faster now)!
> And they have to editorialize to survive

I don't understand this part of your argument. Why do they need to editorialize to survive? They can make money off readers subscribing to authors. If someone doesn't want to read a certain author's content, they don't have to click it or subscribe to it. That's it.

I'm not sure why the thinking these days is that some platform can't survive unless it editorializes. Amazon operated for years without censoring books for instance, rebuffing calls for censorship and committing to a free speech stance. Now they've changed direction (example 1 https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/02/when-amaz... example 2 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/technology/amazon-hitler-...) and I am not sure why. They would have no impact to their bottom line if they just stuck to their neutral stance, and I imagine the same is true for Substack.
For most people that’s kinda like asking who’s the decision maker on what brand of bearings get used in your cars engine.

It’s just not even on most people’s radar, it’s just something that comes along with the web hosting/Linux disto/AMI/SaaS they buy.

Most people don’t even think about whether Ford or Toyota make the bearings in their engines (they don’t), a very very few people tear down their engines and replace bearings and most of them will just order new ones from the car’s manufacturer. A tiny percentage of people tearing down engines will actively make decisions about whether Ford/Toyotas bearings are right for their project, and maybe if they’re drag racers or rally car builders they’ll choose different bearings. There’s an even smaller number of people who build engines from scratch, who’ll decide for themselves the right bearings for them. There are maybe a few dozen people on the planet who work at major car manufacturers who specify 99.999+% of all the engine bearings used in current passenger cars.

FAANG are kinda like Formula1 teams here, they work very closely with their engine manufactures to ensure they have the best possible bearings/ssl implementations for their specific use cases. Radha/Cannonical/Microsoft/et al. are the car manufacturers, who choose bearings/ssl libraries most generally suitable for the expected use and lifespans of their products - without optimising fo any one specific use case.

(And most HN commenters, like me, are the armchair quarterbacks second guessing and speculating endlessly about why a particular racer's engine expired during yesterday's race on internet forums every Monday morning... :-) )
I don't think they meant "this released source tree" but as in "microsoft's source tree" since it is still actively maintained for the LTSC release channel.

This is for the new calculator only.
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dd will create sparse files if you use the seek option, like:

dd if=/dev/zero of=a_sparse_file bs=1 count=0 seek=8G
Do you think getting David Schwimmer to come yell "Pivot!" would help?
I totally agree with that. I wish we used a type of zoning more like Japanese zoning, where instead of exclusive zones, you have maximum level of allowable nuisance in different zones. This is a good writeup that has been discussed on HN in the past: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
The canal is just 10 metres deeper than the ship and it's more than 10 metres high, so just blowing up the ship is not enough to clear the canal. You also need to take away the 200 million kg of steel afterwards. At that point it's easier to just wait for the Really Big Tugboats to come over.