skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created and/or maintain various semi-popular open source projects (please join codeshelter.co!) and I always feel like I'm in a different universe from people like the author here.

Yes, people file bugs, but I want to hear about the bugs so I can fix them. They're always polite, often file PRs and fix the bugs themselves, and always thank me in the end and I thank them back.

I've either never had a rude/demanding user, or don't remember one if I did. Is it because I mostly write developer libraries? Is it end users that are terrible?
Have you seen his blog? He's admitted failings and mistakes in the past.
Are github usernames especially sensitive?
I'm not a fan of racialising everything either, but I don't think the intended meaning of that advice is really so obscure. It is something like 'white guys have been socialised to put themselves forward and take credit for things, whereas our society has probably squashed those tendencies in you; but in this setting you would benefit from being more like those white guys, i.e. more assertive and less self-effacing'. It's fair enough to be annoyed by the generalisations, the insistence on bringing race into everything, etc., but I don't think it takes much charity to see that the underlying point is well-intentioned and not obviously stupid.
> I don't want to live in a world without American freedom of speech - where we can't be blunt and speak our minds.

You've always lived in this world and this is the America you grew up in. You were lied to.

The government has stayed very professional in this, and by that I mean complete absence, which is American freedom of speech.
> Yes, you are accountable for the communications you make, whether via keybord, orally, or any other way.

I agree that you are accountable for the things you say. Unfortunately, people are attempting to hold RMS accountable for things he did not say. This situation is the result of willful misinterpretation and dishonest and sensationalist media reporting.

The principle of charity must be applied, particularly with people on the Autism spectrum, who aren't necessarily tuned to the sensibilities of society around them.
GitHub now automatically generates a Table of Contents on READMEs
> because of the toxic effect he has on the community, in particular driving women -- and more recently, those repulsed by pedophilia -- away.

Can you name one person who was driven away from contributing to free software because of Stallman? Sarah Mei? Lol. I believe that it is unlikely for someone _really_ willing to contribute to society to abandon this idea simply because some person he's never met being an unpleasant person. If that really turned someone off, the desire to participate was weaker than mild.
One would think that the multitude of already established terms for this symbol would, if anything, vindicate the use of the term "hashtag". It demonstrates that there is already a historical precedent for contextual consideration when naming the # symbol.
I would be interested in reading an explanation of how this works, which I can't see on the repo.

I'm familiar with SIRENs and CLIP, but not immediately obvious how the two are utilised here.
Look To Windward is basically that book. The vast majority of the book follows the musing and philosophical thoughts of a couple of aliens and a god. Plus a slice-of-culture-life as a background (The whole concert thing is interesting).

There is a minor opponent and an action subplot, but in the end it takes the backseat and the inner thoughts of the god's mind is the focus.

Ah, and some vulgar display of power form the part of the Culture in the epilogue. Don't fuck with the Culture.
Agree. Even for The Financial Times, I have seen the same pattern over the last five years. Each year, it seems they push more and more commentary. Honestly, I have no idea if this strictly marketing (organisation of "front page") or actual budget changes.

If anyone works in the news making business, can you comment about the cost of opinion vs non-opinion (fact-based) reporting? I assume opinion (pundits) are cheaper than non-opinion reporters. Why? Much less travel & location costs.

Deeper: Can you imagine the cost of placing a highly educated reporter into a developing country with their family and children? I first thought about this after reading that Peter Hessler and and Leslie Chang were moving to Cairo to work for The New Yorker (TNY). Surely, their children will attend private international schools, where tuition would be paid for by TNY. And what about apartment / security / car-and-driver / yada-yada? I am not against any of it, but the total family package cost must be incredible! (Again: If anyone has first hand knowledge of overseas reporter living packages, please comment below!)
I can't comment on most of the accusations, I have never met rms in person. But what really shocked me was that the authors of the anti rms letter label him as "transphobe", as a source for that claim they link to his GNU Kind Communications Guidelines [1], which to me spell the exact opposite. Why put such a claim in there?

I find it really disturbing that so many people willingly accept that it's ok to mix legitimate criticism (assuming it is) with what is basically lies. "Might as well call him a few other bad names while we're at it for maximum impact"?. Why?

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html
List Comprehension in Python – Is it always faster than For-loops?
Linux is mature enough to handle less centralization. Each distro already maintains its flavor of patches, there is Android fork, several embedded forks... It will be more similar to FreeBSD development.
I don't want to live in a world without American freedom of speech - where we can't be blunt and speak our minds.

But this is a fantasy you made up. We've never lived in a society where you are free to say whatever you want and are isolated from all consequences of that.

In fact, you will almost certainly have some lines yourself. There are things that Stallman could have said, or actions that he could have taken, that you personally would agree made it untenable for him to keep his position. I'm unsure why you feel that your position is the only reasonable one to hold, and that anybody who has a different level of tolerance constitutes a "mob".

It feels like we're in the midst of a moral panic, but I don't think it's coming from who you seem to think it is.
Knowledge on RMS' behaviour tended to move slowly, probably heavily in part due to hero worship before one met him.

And I'm not talking about the horrific behaviour towards opposite sex, or other unprivileged groups. Tales of "I idolized RMS and thought he was at worst a bit hippy in behaviour then I met him and now I never want to again" tended to move word of mouth, sometimes with background feeling of "do not want to rock the boat, I want Free Software to flourish".
"I'm xy and had push access to the php core git server, but I do not yet have access to the PHP organization. Could you add @xyfake to it? Thanks!"

Combine that with a spoofed/typo'd sender and you're good to go.
imagine not having sockpuppet accounts on HN [or reddit]

imagine posting under your real name and having all that in your bio

imagine thinking hackernews is different than a subreddit
The problem is who's deciding what is and isn't acceptable, RMS has been saying clearly derogatory statements about religion, the basis of most of our shared morality, for decades without a single peep from the virtue crowd. He says a few edgy this about something else and then the pitch forks are out.

The problem is that I'm not sure we have much of a shared morality any more.
Of course there's something we can do. We get to make choices.
> I was told that our goal should be to be blind to such attributes

The woke reactions would be like: It’s really saying, "I don’t really see what makes you you". We want you to see the benefit of the diversity people bring to the table. Being colour-blind used to be woke, now it's whitewashing.

My comment: apparently they need the attributes to define the identity they rally around. You can't not see them anymore because it is interpreted as ignoring their identity.
There where in the wild implementations x.400 and x.500 I worked on them.

And x.400 had stuf that internet mail took a decade to catch up to and some cases does not have non repudiation for example.
Well the difference is that Torvalds remains competent?

Easy example: Stallman's idealism is why LLVM is now the academics favoured compiler to work on (i.e. no plugins for GCC)

More human example: Someone I know who works in the GNU ecosystem on a reasonably major project mentioned that rms was cordial until he found out that this maintainer had children. And this was in response to someone handing already GPL code over to the FSF
imagine this is 4chan
unprecedented multicultural unity.

When?

Liberation from what? Will this time commies implement true coomunism and create heaven on earth with your ersatz religion?
As Wikipedia shows, FSF has/had a lot of power (Wikipedia was originally GFDL licensed)
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>RMS does not have the skillset needed for a leadership position today.

Care to define what that skillset is? Leadership requires all sorts of skills and some of the most effective leaders I've seen share very little in common.
> What do we do about this?

Step 1 would be to groom people to leadership positions. How is it that an organization of 35+ years doesn't have a good rank next generation who will take the baton from the old guard? I bet you can't name another member of the FSF. For Linux kernel, I can think of GHK, for Ruby I know quite a few people, but for FSF, the bus factor seems to be 1.

Even without all the accusations, FSF should have a leadership they can fallback to. I feared for FSF after Stallman (before the controversy), now I fear for FSF, full stop.
If you really want to give him the benefit of doubt, I suggest reading this [1]

[1] https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
Are Geniuses Real?
https://righttobeforgotten.org/

Most Americans support right to have some personal info removed from online searches
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/27/most-americ...
Problems of Personalisation in Ecommerce
Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020
Sorry, while I appreciate what he has done and this seems a bit like witch hunt to me, I was already working in IT before GNU happened and most of my work is unrelated to GNU/Linux.

Without it, I would still be using Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, Aix, BSD, ....
The fact that the Twitter Khmer Rouge are currently making lists of people signing the Stallman support letter might help explain why only Russians, safe from American wokeness and cancel culture, are willing to sign that letter.
I'm very doubtful that this paper is correct, otherwise it would mean that we can put things FTL with just enough energy..
Wondering if there's a 3D model of the ship
> Other than that, just because Stallman did a good thing once...

Come on: this is a massive trivialisation of RMS's achievements. I have often disagreed with him but his contributions to OSS, and to the wider foundations of modern software and software development, are huge and are the product of decades of devotion - of consistent, motivated effort - from him.

Like it or not, all of us who work in software - even those of us who aren't necessarily strong advocates of free software - benefit from RMS's work.

I've also got bad news for you: we all exhibit _patterns_ of bad behaviour. Fortunately, we are all equipped with the capacity to change even long ingrained habits and patterns.

(To be clear: I am in no way defending any bad behaviour from RMS towards other people, or suggesting that he shouldn't change that behaviour.)
You’re deluded if you think RMS hasn’t had enough chances at this point.
We were slightly bit by this over the weekend and caught in the unfortunate situation where we're basically left complaining about free software and handling of said ecosystem.

Luckily we didn't have any critical fixes that needed to go out. I'm sure there were a few teams who needed to scramble but were left waiting.

Yes it could be handled better, but please remember, so much of it is software where no money needed to be paid to use.
I thought that was done back with EGCS, kinda surprised.
https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

The organisations that I've heard of which called for the board at the FSF to resign:

- X.org Foundation
- Tor Project
- Mozilla
- The HardenedBSD Foundation / The HardenedBSD Project
- SUSE
- GNOME Foundation
- The FreeDOS Project
- Creative Commons
- OBS Project

Isn't this a bit more than a vocal twitter minority?
> Yes, you are accountable for the communications you make...

> Yes, you can be killed for the communications you make...

> Yes, you will be cancelled if your joke is taken out of context...

I guess the question here is whether anything can be done to change this. After all, the society has progressed to the point where it has proclaimed freedom of thought / conscience to be an important value, and, ostensibly, has stopped discriminating on religious grounds. There's no significant difference, in my opinion, between writing something in a textarea and collectively praying to a god or proselytizing on the streets.
I'm not American and I 100% understand what he means.
I don't think anyone in this thread was alluding to a period of history. I think they were making a normative statement.
The list from the email:

1. 'skeptical that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.’ stallman's own
archives 2006-mar-jun I note that children are incapable of consenting.
That’s what the age of consent means.

2. 'end censorship of “child pornography”’. Stallman's archives
2012-jul-oct.html Notice use of “quotes” to down play what is actually being
requested.

3. 'gentle expressions of attraction’ Stallman's archives 2012-jul-oct.html
Condoning a variant of the wolf-whistle. Unless one’s talking to one’s lover,
‘gentle invitations for sex’ by a stranger is grooming (be it child or of-age).

4. Defends someone charged with ‘"sexual assault" on a "child" after a
session with a sex worker of age 16.’ stallman's archives 2018-jul-oct Notice
the quoting here, implying the child is not a child. ‘The article refers to
the sex worker as a "child", but that is not so. Elsewhere it has been published
that she is 16 years old. That is late adolescence, not childhood.’ No, they are
a child, that’s what the ages of majority and consent mean.

5. The ‘St Ignatius’ ‘EMACS virgins’ non-joke. ‘The commenter writes about
seeing the routine when she was only 15, and how RMS singled her out several
times during that performance:
He actually pointed to me in the back and proclaimed, into the mic, "A
GIRL!" causing the audience to turn and look. Mortifying. Then he proceeded to
gesture toward me every time he referred to "EMACS Virgins." (I cannot believe
that he is still doing the same talk 10+ years later.)’
No wonder women want nothing to do with him.

6. A business card that is completely repelling image on oreilly

7. He knows those cards are inappropriate. He broke the code of conduct he
helped author. wiredferret's twitter feed.

8. I understand he’s tried to circumvent such codes of conduct by asking
women to meet him outside of the conference venue. _sagesharp_'s twitter feed.

9. He doesn’t acknowledge the few women he has worked with ‘I don’t have
any experience working with women in programming projects; I don’t think that
any volunteered to work on Emacs or GCC.’ Completely ignoring Sandra Loosemore,
who is a coauthor, with him, of the Glibc manual. Sandra was involved with LISP
standardization, so I would be surprised if he was unaware of her involvement
there. As you well know, she has worked significantly on GCC, GCC has several
other women contributors, but too few for complacency.

10. ‘My first interaction with RMS was at a hacker con at 19. He asked my
name, I gave it, whether I went to MIT (I had an MIT shirt on), and after
confirmation I did, asked me on a date. I said no. That was our entire
conversation.’ corbett's twitter feed. This is but one of many reports of
utterly inappropriate social interactions.

This also ignores that GCC seems to remain relevant despite Stallman rather than because of him.
Stallman and the FSF are destroying what they built.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

We forgive those who show remorse and make amends. Not those who continue their bad behaviour.
Still freedom of speech is understood much more literally and with fewer exceptions in U.S. than elsewhere.

In Germany for one, there is no such thing as freedom of speech, but rather "freedom of opinion". Practically that means that if you want to say something that someone else is not going to like, you have to a) take care not to bring up any facts (e.g. say that someone touched you inappropriately), because as soon as you do that you have to either provide a proof or face slander suit b) still not to cross the line when your opinion can be considered offensive. This doesn't leave a lot of space for free speech. This is not to mention a list of forbidden opinions and symbols for which you will face repercussions from the state itself.

Don't want to argue which is the right way, I just mean that "American freedom of speech" is a real thing.
> why didn't these women report him to the whoever competent authorities at MIT? Or to the police if the crime is serious enough?

For the same reason that Epstein, Weinstein, or Cosby had a huge number of victims that didn't report anything: each victim individually calculated that reporting it was far more likely to wreck their career than achieve anything positive.
He may not have sought a clinical diagnosis, or if he does he may not want to disclose it, which is within his rights.

Nevertheless, he clearly and obviously displays so many symptoms from that spectrum that it would only be charitable to treat his communications under the assumptions that there's something there.
Most of those people have never been in the same room with RMS.
Well JSX is not really just javascript/typescript - it needs to be transformed first, just throwing a .jsx file into a script tag won't work. It does compile down to just javascript, but the same can be said for svelte.

I can see the argument for JSX being more flexible, given that you can store little bits of JSX in js expressions, something you typically cannot do with the other component frameworks. But tools like svelte have their own DX improvements that make things like state management / reactivity arguably a lot easier than React.
"I don't want to live in a world without American freedom of speech - where we can't be blunt and speak our minds."

American freedom of speech in the 1st Amendment states that the US Government can't restrict what you're able to say.

It does not state that you're entitled to say what you want without real world consequences.
I think the difference here is that Linus was at least self-aware, humble or critical enough of a thinker to realize that his behavior was problematic, state the fact plainly and take responsibility for changing it for the good of the community.

RMS has been unrepentantly stubborn, famously intolerant of differing views and has not demonstrated a desire to change.
You should checkout lbmpy for generation of lbm kernels: https://pycodegen.pages.i10git.cs.fau.de/lbmpy/
Thank you for introducing. The guy is a gem. Subscribed.
Not just floats, and I'm not sure they have to be that small. All sorts of structs containing bitstypes/value types can be stack allocated. In fact, even some structs with pointers to heap-allocated memory can be stack-allocated (such as array views.)

I don't know about linked lists, though.
If you get a screenshot, you're doing better than I typically am with my paying customers. It's usually not more than a vague two sentence email, and a meeting invite for 7:30 AM sent at 3 AM my time...

It usually takes me one or two days of back-and-forth to get the basic set of information to be even able to diagnose a problem. And this is with people that I've worked with for years, and have hammered and hammered on the kind of details I need, and have even built features to collect all the diagnostics with a single click...
I just Googled annual subscription cost for The Economist: ~200 USD. That is the same for the New Yorker. I agree with your point: Their readership is a drop in the ocean compared to other English language news sources. That said: It is worth considering the effect of "high/difficult paywall" on readership. Both have almost zero free content, high subscription costs, but excellent reporting.

To state the obvious: Good media isn't cheap!
> open source

There are many in the FSF that view the aims of "open source" as opposite to Free Software. FSF aims for the elimination of all proprietary software. Microsoft and IBM support open source and the resignation of the FSF board.

Open Source has basically won. No one really gets what Free Software is anymore.
good article that deals quite well with the controversial topics [1]

[1] https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
It still is licensed under the GFDL, I'm not seeing how this is an example of them having power, and this is the GFDL is not the GPL.
> Unused RAM doesn’t use less power, though.

Interesting, I thought it would. Just like a written hard drives weights more, than an empty one:

https://www.ellipsix.net/blog/2009/04/how-much-does-data-wei...
Torvalds listened and apologized.
It is nice how you prove your point about Stallman being totally incompetent leader by providing a very specific and verifiable allegation.

Also, now we know that rms has 'bad book' where he puts people with children.
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Please use good faith arguments.
I ran some Lovecraft through Story2Hallucination[1] which uses Big Sleep to make videos from text.

The results were quite something - https://m.imgur.com/tfWLsSR

[1] https://github.com/lots-of-things/Story2Hallucination
They can still track you though.
"When the package is a functional part of the tool it’s carrying"

Exactly like the iPouch for the new Apple headphones, right?
“Some guy” being a core GCC contributor who has contributed quality code much more recently than RMS
Wow PHP still going huh
> In fact, you will almost certainly have some lines yourself. There are things that Stallman could have said, or actions that he could have taken, that you personally would agree made it untenable for him to keep his position

Why so much speculation? He's actually saying the opposite.
The environment is profoundly different today than say, 40 years ago. Being different is much easier today.

I was seduced by my parents to join a Judo club so I could stand up to myself ( this works wonders ).

Last year, I confronted a new millenial neighbour of mine repeatedly on her behaviour of biking on the sidewalk. The biggest problem was she was doing blind corners as well. There are small children here playing, we have elderly with walking aids. It was dangerous.

She called the police on me.
Prime example right here of ignoring everything he said due to one bad (but well intended) analogy. This is exactly the problem he is talking about.
Mega thanks for making and posting this. I've been searching for a tool to "destructure" exactly this way... not necessarily down to radicals, but to any part that has meaning by itself.

Thank you for citing your sources too. As others have mentioned, much of the fun of learning is developing the tools, and this thread helps fill a gaping hole in mine.
Freedom of speech is about the freedom to make political opinions while retaining your place in society as a citizen.

None of the public judgements about RMS are about anything technical, anything about free software, or anything that touch on him running the FSF. He voiced an unfashionable opinion on sex and the laws about sex.

This is a political act to blacklist a man for his political opinions from work in a profession that he is qualified for.