skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5 sigma is the standard for calling something an observation. It is not a barrier to publication! That would introduce horrible biases and encourage p-hacking.
Why the Amazon union vote is bigger than Amazon
There is a huge difference in who takes the burden of proof. In the U.S. if you accuse someone of slander, you have to prove that what they say is false and malicious. In Germany it's the other way round: the one who is accused is also the one who should prove that what they say is true.

Which leaves e.g. little space for #metoo in Germany - either you have proofs and then you go to police/court - or you don't, and then you have to stay silent.
Unicorns aren't unironically studied at universities and written about in the NYT.
Fair point, maybe I took that too far.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I felt the show was as respectful to the victim as possible.
This is spot on, even though predictably and depressingly you've been downvoted to hell.

Autism does not excuse sexual harassment. Pretending it does is a complete ableist trope. As you say, it's a disservice to everybody with disabilities who have learnt, as necessary, to not sexually harass others.
The rest of the monologue you quoted does go into details on the value of human life for a Mind. I won't quote it as it might contain spoilers (or at least foreshadowing), but it can easily be googled.

Minds, or at least some of them, care about the life of humans, and harming them can be deeply traumatic for them.
Those things exist, and they work pretty good. I don't know if they have a single receiver or a separate receiver for each antenna. Examples:

http://www.jrc.co.jp/eng/product/lineup/jlr21_31/pdf/JLR-21....

https://comnav.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/WEB_GNSS-G2G2B...

A traditional gyrocompass is the more common option though, I think.
Can we go back to discussing if Rust is better than Go please?
There is a form of entitlement that is becoming pervasive where people believe they will walk the world and face none of its ills. If you are a woman you will 100% deal with sexism. If you are a minority you will 100% deal with racism. If you’re not in the ‘in group’, you will deal with isolation. This is part of life.

We as a society only step in collectively when these things happen at an egregious level (what was going on in Hollywood), but if you think you won’t face some degree of it in your daily life then you are just not covering your bases. One must have the resiliency to deal with some of it, and that is fair and reasonable to expect because the contract is we are tolerant of imperfect humans as a society (that those who are sexist and racist have a flaw but are not evil, and we tolerate this imperfection through patience). It’s never going anywhere.
I take it by "as usual" you mean "for the first time since the 1970s"? We have precisely one reason so far to adjust the Standard Model (neutrino oscillation) and it's not a resolved matter of how to do that.
It‘s not okay to say they are abusive. You wouldn‘t call a child abusive if it shouts out some words that it doesn‘t understand.
>Freedom of speech isn't the freedom to not be publicly judged about what you say.

This is not just about being judged, it's about being judged and executed for your opinions.
The judges and the juries have already handed out their verdict and will personally hand out the punishment, and if you dare question it you'll likely be next on the list. For example, I've seen that those who sided against RMS create a script to block those who signed the petition in his support. It's infuriating, it's a childish behavior that doesn't help anyone, it serves only to further polarize and radicalize the two sides, and further reduces the room for discussion. If there even was room left, that is. [1]

This is not an ecosystem where people are able to express their ideas. There is either black or white. You are either with us or against us. And if you express moderate opinions you risk angering both sides, and good luck with that.

You have to carefully weight every single word, because all it takes is for a single person to take issue with your comment enough to signal it to the cancel culture mob on Twitter to mobilize a horde of vocal complainers with plenty of spare time that will do everything they can to make you regret ever typing it out, either now or in the future. It's outright barbaric behavior from both sides that has been seen time and time again in the last years.

Do you honestly consider this "freedom of speech"?

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[1] As another commenter points out, this kind of stuff comes from both sides. The given example was just fresh in my mind.
Do not use an Orange screw.

Some snapped while being screwed into my rocky ground, and after just a few weeks holding down my tent the rest all started to fatigue snap.

Making that sort of thing out if plastic is just poor design. Screw threads are far better made of steel. You can use less steel for the same strength and it's more eco friendly when lost in the ground too.

This company is all marketing and very little engineering.
> you have to be able to attack systems or ideas from a ferocious point of view, seeking any weakness, without feeling that attacks on ideas are attacks on you

This is how you should work in science anyways: "we tried to refute a theory, failed at that and are now forced to assume that it is valid to some degree."

Does CS have a problem with that in general?
In the linked guidelines it says the following:

> Honoring people's preferences about gender identity includes not referring to them in ways that conflict with that identity. For instance, not to use pronouns for them that conflict with it.

> There are several ways to avoid that; one way is to use gender-neutral pronouns, since they don't conflict with any possible gender identity.

> One choice is singular use of “they,” “them” and “their.”

> Another choice uses the gender-neutral singular pronouns, “person,” “per” and “pers,” which are used in Information for Maintainers of GNU Software.

> Other gender-neutral pronouns have also been used in English.

I'm genuinely trying to understand this. That does not spell a strong opposition to the supposedly preferred use of "they".
But even then, does that really warrant the label "transphobe"?

Is that all it takes to qualify as a transphobe person, despite all the other points?
> Even releasing your project on GH with a readme

I wouldn't expect people to read that. The real issue, I think, is still that many fail to understand that open source software is free, in multiple ways.

The worst of the examples in the article is the: "We are waiting for a solution". If you pick open source software for critical infrastructure, then you need to be prepared to provide solutions for your own problems. Sometimes that means fixing stuff yourself, sometimes it means paying external developers to do it for you. People/companies forget that part.

The OpenBSD approach of just shutting down request with a the comment: "Show us the code." is a little hard, but not unreasonable.
This is a qualitative, not quantitative study. The goal of qualitative research (in cases like this) is, essentially, finding categories, not the relative distribution of the population in those categories. I've seen well-executed qualitative studies with less than 10 participants, 53 is actually on the higher end for this approach.

You usually try to select for a pretty diverse cohort (which the authors did in this case), not a representative one.

A diverse cohort means you'll probably have all categories that matter. A representative cohort means you'll have a distribution over these categories that is pretty similar to the real world.

The result here is essentially displayed in Figure 1. One could now follow up with a quantitative design to e.g. discern which particular step is the most common obstacle.
There are lots of livestock on ships in the queue, something on the order of 100,000 animals will literally perish.
> My sister has Asperger's and is easily able to understand [...]. I don't see what Asperger's has to do with the issues RSM was/is ignorant about.

Exactly. And regardless, his (willful) non-understanding makes him a terrible leader, a terrible spokesperson.
Stallman has shown that he's a man of his principles, and willing to stick by them even at great personal cost.

Obviously he's most famous for his dedication to Free Software. But in recent years, he's made it very clear that Free Software isn't actually the most important principle in his life: his freedom to act abusively is more important.

When Stallman was asked to choose between Free Software and abusive behaviour, he chose abusive behaviour. And what we're seeing now is the fallout from the decision he made. It's cost him a lot, yes, but that's his choice. Would that it were less costly for those who have suffered at his hands.
I did not know that yet, thanks for pointing it out!
> Umm.. There was never single point of failure. Just single point of delay. It's not as if there are perishable goods on those ships.

What do you think they use reefer containers for? Container vessels often have loads of perishable goods on them. Though it's often biased one-way. E.g. Latin America to Europe? Loads and loads of bananas. Norway to anywhere? Salmon!

The bananas are green when plucked; they ripen during the voyage.
Sounds like it is also applicable to regular non research computer scientists.
Not really true, with few exceptions you have to deliver on the field of play as a star athlete to maintain a high salary. The marketing creates some variance within the category but the top paid athletes are the top performing athletes otherwise why would they even retire?
Are 30mph winds rare there? That seems quite mild. Why hasn’t this happened before?
There's also bias. I could be seeing a pattern where none exists.

3 is interesting though.
>It does not matter if rms is a nice person or not.

If it impacts his effectiveness in leading the FSF, then it absolutely does matter.

If he's abrasive, then nobody will want to work with him, and by extension people won't want to work with the FSF.

We shouldn't have to play this politically-correct bullshit game of tiptoe: Richard Stallman's social skills are shit, and saying that he's not well suited to a people-facing role is not some attack on him.

>conforming to someone else's views should not be a necessity to work in your chosen field.

It sounds like you don't know the difference between bootlicking and subtlety. While the face of the FSF being unyielding on Free Software is generally good, the face of the FSF being unyielding on,say, nosefucking with plants is less so.
I don't think that would be a big issue in practice. Most amendments address different subject matter and so would be unlikely to produce a "merge conflict".

And in practice all amendments are proposed by Congress, and Congress always knows what amendments are already pending, and should be able to foresee any potential "merge conflicts" and address them. You can always use conditional patch instructions: "Replace section A with B; however, if amendment C has entered into force before this amendment, instead replace section A with D". There are other tricks too, like one proposed amendment inserts section 29A and the next inserts section 29B, and maybe if the first one never gets ratified but the second one does you end up with a section 29B without there ever being a section 29A.

(Technically there is a process where a convention proposes amendments independently of Congress – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendmen... – but it has never been used, and who knows if it ever will be. Anyway, the same point applies to such a convention – it knows what amendments are already pending so it can write its proposed amendments to include solutions to any merge conflicts)

I think the real explanation – the US constitution is really old, a late 18th century document, before a lot of the contemporary English-language culture around maintaining legislation had developed. And now it is the way it is, and nobody wants to change it. But if they started again tomorrow it is unlikely they'd organise the amendments in the same way. And a lot of US state constitutions are newer, and they are maintained in the more usual manner precisely because they were adopted after the usual manner was invented.
Guilty too. I had this idea to improve the order in which I should study kanjis. Ended up with a neo4j instance with kanjis, kanji components (not just radicals), words, and how they are combined.

Now I'm still using the same algorithm, but I do everything manually. It takes time but I found that the flashcard customization aspect makes the memorization easier.
Then what about the following part from the guidelines:

> Honoring people's preferences about gender identity includes not referring to them in ways that conflict with that identity. For instance, not to use pronouns for them that conflict with it.
> "So one issue - you are not supposed to really ask minorities / women to explain / teach you / help you deal with these issues because it in fairness burdens them."

Well, yes and no. I can see how it's a burden, but they're also the people with the most hands-on experience. If they won't explain, how can anyone else learn?

Because it is a serious problem, and not solving it is not acceptable. Of course men, or whichever the privileged group in any particular case is, have a responsibility to listen and learn, but that only works if someone is willing to explain.

Although I'd love to agree that it's the responsibility of the oppressor or privileged group to fix the problem, it has got to be a collective responsibility. You can't help people without the involvement of the people you're trying to help.
Obviously the age of consent can be discussed, it even varies from country to country.

I don't understand the EMACS virgin joke?

I don't think asking women on dates is automatically "inappropriate behavior". How are men and women supposed to get together? Even in a "professional setting", because the feminist claim that it is demeaning to women if somebody is attracted to them is simply wrong.

I can't claim RMS is "ok", but I'd like to see better evidence against him. Some women disliking him is not enough, either.
>"...just because Stallman did a good thing once..."

This is one glaring trivialization. RMS had "once" spent decades of hard work from which we all benefit greatly.
> Freedom of speech is about the freedom to make political opinions while retaining your place in society as a citizen.

No, freedom of speech is about not being censored for expressing your opinions. It is not a right to be facilitated in expressing your opinions, or freedom of consequences for your opinions.
True, and I'm judging the public on their flimsy judgement and groupthink. 90% of the outrage and even half the argument on subjects like this comes from people joining in without having had an independent thought or any first hand experience with the source material (RMS and his behavior)
I have not, and would be interested to see a link to that (the posting(s) in question, not the whole blog), particularly if it addresses the many accusations of sexual harassment, as my understanding was that this had not happened. Prompted by your comment, I had a look on his site, but nothing seemed to be fit the bill, either in the "Political Articles" section or the "Non-political Articles" section — but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places? Please, enlighten me.
In FLOSS nobody cares who you are. Not your sex, your gender, not even your real identity. All that matters is the value you provide, mostly in the form of code. Those who contribute good code are lauded, others - not so much.

If you are seeking things like recognition, acknowledgement or other ways to entertain your vanity, you should really join some other community. FLOSS could use more engineers and fewer activists who contribute only to the community, not to the code or documentation/teaching materials.

Also, copyleft communities are not dying. They are fine and growing.
Fully agreed. Unfortunately, being snowflakes and snowflaking because their feelings are hurt blindsided them to what matters. They are a lot of them.
Says more about the complexity (or lack thereof) of the product than the capabilities of those 12.
That would work if code was reqired to be OSS.
If the person had a GitHub account before, it could be newly created by the attacker. Or they could have had different e-mails for php.net and GitHub, i.e. something like php@xy.com and github@xy.com.

In a perfect world, this would be fine, yes. But when adding work on top of a probably already very stressful workday, the likelihood of this creating additional problems is there.
This is what we used for reading & translating long passages in my American high school’s Spanish 5/AP Spanish course. I don’t have much to compare it to, but it seemed like a good choice at the time.
That's not how that worked. "If the communism didn't consider you an enemy" is more apt and an average Hungarian had no way of telling how anything they say could be interpreted.
> If that was true for the Evergreen ship, wouldn't they have dismantled the ship by now then?

The vessel is completely filled with containers. To discharge a container you need a crane. Further, some perishable things, that's why shippers have insurance.

Not sure what you mean with 'dismantle' though. It's rather obvious you never seen such a vessel up close. It's nor like a pc. If you want a specific container, it can often be a complete hassle to get to it. This as loads of other containers are stacked on top.
why do you think it gets a pass? may be they just choose to watch it the same way they choose to vote, the least bad option. And also it is entertaining in a way, so might be just that(don't trust any media, but fox is at least fun, etc)
Really nice, super smooth, and extremely fast
>For example, I've seen that those who sided against RMS created a script to block those who signed the petition that supported him.

And people who support RMS want to have Molly Le Blanc arrested for starting the petition to remove him[0].

[0]https://debian.community/molly-de-blanc-arrest-and-prosecuti...
Yup, long before I ever heard of Stallman we were passing around mag tapes full of software to share - people brought stuff to conferences and conference tapes were a thing
Because games serve another purpose than just the energy consumption.

Whereas the bitcoin has no utility versus already existing fiat currency, except for the one to prevent any governmental fine tuning on the economics (by decentralizing).

This fine tuning is notably required for, e.g., environmental issues, energy reforms, social support... or just for the government to work at all, deciding budgets, create laws and organize the society.

Wanting to not participate in that in order to increase own's wealth is just wrong, and even wronger when you do that by monopolizing all of the planet's energy.
I can totally sympathize with this idea. When you pick a tool to make a specific task easier, you want it to do exactly that.

I see this all the time in conversation (with younger developers, mostly). They find it very difficult to understand how one can possibly survive without an (advanced) IDE, and most likely look at me as exactly that chimp.

I'm a very basic user of IDEs. I don't use almost any of their advanced features, nor do I memorize anything beyond the most basic shortcuts. I can't even justify the investment to learn them properly, as context may require me to change IDEs (and that context is often an accumulation of grievances).

On the other hand, I live inside the CLI, have no trouble composing basic tools to do what I want, and has been so for ages.

I'd much rather have a toolbox of individual tools that I can choose from and mix-and-match over time, than a fancy all-in-one powertool that would trap me with sunk costs like a bad marriage.
Nope: https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/cern-experiments-o...
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How about FOSS have a commercial licence and a body to collect payments from enterprises, pays out the open source devs. Basically a more focused and more opinionated/vocal patreon.
> There are several ways to avoid that; one way is to use gender-neutral pronouns, since they don't conflict with any possible gender identity.

I have explained elsewhere in this thread why it's problematic to call a he/him trans man "they" and never "him"

> That does not spell a strong opposition to the supposedly preferred use of "they".

A previous version of the guidelines banned singular they. It has single been updated, even though Stallman on his personal site continues his disapproval.

> Is that all it takes to qualify as a transphobe person, despite all the other points

Rejecting gender identities is core to being a transphobe.
True, but knowingly saying something false is always lying.
is packaging really packaging if its not in any way useful. Why would the screw need a tube?
> they secretly dream about impressing mathematicians

This made me chuckle, and then I read this:

> systems researchers will light up when telling you that they have constructed a system that is twice as fast, half the size, and more powerful than its predecessor

and thought "Oh God, that is me"! (I'm not in research) I almost don't want to read the rest.

On a (possibly) less personal topic, I've found that non-computer science researchers who program will dismiss all help with "it doesn't need to be run by anyone else", (which is kind of scary considering the problems with reproducibility) or, if they are open to help but they don't understand what you've suggested/written/submitted etc, will try hard to drop it quietly. I think it's so they don't have to admit any lack of understanding, which is weird - I can barely understand code I wrote 6 months ago and I've written plenty of Perl in the past, too. The idea that code should be so easily understood that to ask a question would make one seem inadequate strikes me as a fanciful dream.

Edit: don't want to mislead, I'm not a researcher, it just sounds like me :/ :)
Too late to edit the comment.
If I had written "...opposite end of..." it might have been clearer.

I did not mean the opposite of a political spectrum, but since you raise the question, I am very optimistic that it exists.
If you do this, do read up on Kalman and/or particle filters to stabilize the output and maybe even add in an IMU module. GNSS sensors have a fair amount of variance from atmospheric disturbances, so their reported position can jump around a fair bit. If you are out of range of DGPS stations you can have errors of 1-2m easily, which could lead to jumps in perceived course of tens of degrees.
To be fair, there are more people from UK and Eastern Europe (Russia, Romania, Poland, Ukraine) posting here than SV, probably because the majority of the software devs congregate in these countries.
In my opinion, it's like when an expedition to an 8K is at a few meters of the top of the mountain and it makes the news. They are not there yet, but it can be interesting to follow the last steps, even although it is perfectly possible that they do not make it at the end.

And from a more academic point of view, although this is not a new discovery, it can be an interesting line of research. If they have used all the available data and they could only get sigma 3, I think it makes sense to publish what you got in order to justify spending your time trying to either make that a five or discard the hypothesis.
>I was reading comments in another HN thread, and one poster

>suggested that this might arise from raising kids without

>bullying. Like the immune system, if we don't develop a

>central tolerance, perhaps we start attacking everything we

>find unpleasant? No basis in behavioral science, of course.

I'm not sure I understood what are you trying to say here, are you suggesting that a "small dose" of bullying is beneficial to a child's development?
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