skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The originator in the EU was a business man who wanted a mater of public record (some fine I believe) removed.

Does raise the q should states publish so much information they collect Swedish tax records, Names and Addresses of accused persons (lots of countries) publishing Mugshots like the US does.
This ships have to be accompanied by tugs, to prevent this kind of errors, if the sandstorm was so big that even the tugs were unable to maintain control of the ships, maybe the error was from the canal authority to give the permission to transit the canal without looking the weather forecast.
This guy really knows his stuff and teaches it incredibly well.

If you’re interested in microcontrollers you’ll love watching his vids.
I know it's impossible but it would be very interesting to see how the participants in each list break down by $IDENTITY_GROUP.

Edit: it seems some people are not interested in this data
> perhaps it's best to step away and not click "reply" afterall.

This is censorship. It's why I'm posting anonymously for the first time in a long time.

> there has never been a time where you can just blurt out a communication and have it be "accepted" by society

We're in a new era where algorithms amplify rage and "mobs" are a composite of real people, anonymous users, and bots. You can't fight against it, and there's no due process or forgiveness.
This community is toxic and drives good but flawed people away.
uMatrix, just disable global 1st-party:

* * * block
* * css allow
* * frame block
* * image allow
* 1st-party frame allow

Bonus point — this also disables cookies.
>Let’s just go SOMEWHERE.

Why though? We have robots exploring other planets and comets/asteroids and stuff, still sending data from beyond the solar system. We are places. What do we even get out of it that robots on other planets wouldn't be able to accomplish? If there was a new task humans would do, you could likely just form a way for a robot to do that task.
List of Easter eggs in Microsoft products
> Do we destroy the pillar we've built our entire livelihoods upon to satisfy a mob?

Who says we are? Is Free Software being thrown out of the bus with this? No

The question here is RMS re-joining the FSF board. That's it. People are questioning him rejoining a privileged position.

It's not a prison sentence. He's not being prevented to earn a living.

Yes, nobody is free of blame, everybody has controversial opinions. But at the same time, it's not the right job for him.
I think it's substantially different.

Initial outbreaks of viruses occur geographically at random (with China having a >1/6 chance); the fact that there are significant UK, South African, and Brazilian variants has a much lower random component and a much higher deterministic component. It also illustrates where those variants are still primarily spreading.

If one of those variants become globally dominant, I doubt we will continue to name them after the location.
My org uses Google Docs as office suite and I find it quite good and prefer it over any flavour of Microsoft Office. Nevertheless, there's a _huge_ and vocal push against Google Docs suite in favour of Microsoft Office from some internal stakeholders. None of the complaints from this group go beyond something to the tune of "I know Excel better".

As good as LibreOffice may be (I personally think it is _not_ better than Google docs) and as much as I like the romantic idea of open source office suite, I don't believe this will be successful/sustainable in the long run. The bulk of office suite users are not interested on using alternatives. These users want office running on their machine, period. I'd even venture to say that most users would rather have apps installed instead of Microsoft Office Online.
This would also explain why most of those tools have limited usefulness for learning at an advanced level. Anki and Takoboto (for keeping track of words I want to learn) are really all I use right now.
I'm wondering if you could just take some 3d scenes of say flat interiors and then render them in a good quality with camera looking in random directions to use that as training data. You get actually correct labels because you can calculate it when rendering and label accordingly.
It was briefly discussed in this episode of floss weekly https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/622?autostart=fa... and I think the guest made an interesting observation in that quite a big issue in FSF is that the board is entirely self-selected, the community is not really involved. Thus, the future of the GPL is entirely in the hand of a few people who picked themselves so to say.
It does not matter if rms is a nice person or not. He didn't do anything criminal, his only offense is stoically and pedantically expressing his views, unyielding to public pressure. In other words, displaying those very qualities that helped him change software development forever. People should not be destroyed for not being nice enough to certain individuals prone to offenses, and conforming to someone else's views should not be a necessity to work in your chosen field.
> Paul Berg, an open-source licensing consultant, told The Register in an email that while this is a difficult situation, the developers involved appear to be handling it well.

From a lawyer/licensing POV they handled it well.
From an engineering/building POV, this is very poorly done.

When thousands of websites - including government ones - are breaking because you super harshly fix what's ultimately a pretty small licensing issue, there's a problem. That licensing issue could have been quietly been fixed, it would have been less virtuous from a legal point of view, but the world would have been a slightly better place.

The licensing issue quite frankly did not harm anyone. Thousands of websites breaking, definitely did. So while this may be considered to be a success by an open source licensing consultant, the rest of the world is a bit more nuanced.
Are you saying all the people, from many different backgrounds, organisations, and genders, are all lying when they talk about RMS's abusive and harassing behaviour?
Is it not in Belgium? In Germany you can count this as 'Werbungskosten' which you can deduct from your income. Anything you use for your job or for professional development counts as this type of expense. Don't other countries have similar concepts in their tax systems?
Re: RMS, without passing judgement: - I think people can have great ideas but not be great long term leaders.

FSF has high ideals, and fundamentally needs buy in from people on a lot of levels for them to succeed. It needs community. They could be really thankful to RMS’s getting things going but I don’t really understand why, now, they would add him back to the board. Is he saying new things that aren’t linear from the creation of FSF where his continued high level involvement is more helpful to the end goals than the community upset I would hope the board was aware of as a possibility?
One is signed by the directors of major open-source projects and initiatives.

The other is mainly signed by Russian bots.
> what I gather from the discussion is that there is a _pattern_ of bad behaviour.

I disagree, it's all very much overblown.
I hope this isn't too controversial, but I'd like to argue that there can be social and economical advantages to the average person being slightly unattractive.

First off, there's jealousy. Wikipedia says "Rape and sexual violence have accompanied warfare in virtually every known historical era" [1] With that in mind, you're probably better off if your people are, on average, less attractive then a neighboring country. Also in the modern world, not every woman would want the (sometimes violent) attention that comes with being highly physically attractive.

Then there's the overall economy. Everyone knows that advertisements are full of attractive people, because that works to convince normal people to buy stuff. If most relationships were between two people who are both highly physically attractive, they'd probably pay a lot less attention to the people on TV. So for most companies, there's a strong financial incentive to keep the average person less attractive than their ad models.

And lastly, your time and energy is very finite. If you could trade a 10% decrease in health for a 90% increase in salary, would you do it? Many competitions and industries are close to being a winner-takes-all system, meaning that a tiny increase in your work performance might have an outsized effect on your reward, because it was the last 0.1% to push you ahead of the competition. So it might be a reasonable decision for the average person to let their health slide a bit and focus on getting a good job first. "It is well known that poorer Americans are more likely to be obese" [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_slavery#Historical_case...

[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181211103139.h...
nope. Sorry. Two open windows.
I was thinking, surely the author might overstate this...

then I looked at his biggest project, libsodium, and this is the second most recent bug

https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/issues/1038

```

invalid usage on desktop chrome when running crypto_pwhash

Error: invalid usage

at h (sodium.js:formatted:17589)

at Object.qA [as crypto_pwhash] (sodium.js:formatted:19328)

```

(this is the whole issue, no more information provided.)

OK I feel the author now.
You can't diagnose someone else on the autism spectrum. Applying your bullshit armchair psychology to strangers is harmful to people who actually are on the spectrum.

My sister has Asperger's and is easily able to understand why children can't consent to sex and that it doesn't hurt anyone to use preferred pronouns. I don't see what Asperger's has to do with the issues RSM was/is ignorant about.
>one poster suggested that this might arise from raising kids without bullying.

bullying is being exposed to the mob, not exposing kids to mobs creates mobs seems somehow counterintuitive.
If people are being assholes, you might as well politely tell them to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. It's not like they are paying customers, so there is no justification for taking their abuse.

Even in actual businesses, people are generally too eager to follow the "customer is always right" mantra, rather than getting rid of bad customers that generate more work and stress than they are worth.
This comment is an incredible thing to use as an example.

You made this comment hours and hours ago. Yet in that time, 'what is grey' has changed. Things have been voted up and down. And who's to say that 5 years from now, 10 years, the 'web theme' of this site won't change.

And then grey means something else.

Now what you've said has changed, due to how the 'culture' on this site has changed.

Meanwhile, there have been people examining comments, and actions, people made even decades ago. Comments and actions taken out of context, single sentences quoted out of paragraphs from emails/etc, and then social media destroys them without care.

Not only must people now 'clam up' against current threat, but all potential future threat. A comment well received by a friend, can 20 years later be taken out of context, that context being historical, cultural, and personal.

And on top of all of that, a friend can become an enemy 20 years later, for entirely non-sexist, just normal person-to-person reasons. People can and do change over time, sometimes not for the better.

So:

* fear what you say now

* fear the future, for people will misquote 20 years later

* fear even female friends, for some may change over
decades, and destroy you later

I don't think this is here now. But if the perception of what is happening continues much longer, it may.

Heck, I recall reading an article which coached men to "never be alone with a woman", for "she could claim anything later". This thought process makes it highly difficult to even give advice in private!
>>> Freedom of speech isn't the freedom to not be publicly judged about what you say.

Thank you for putting it so clearly.
See investigation here (in Russian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Ny_TtcYc8 . At 3:00 I see photo of typical Covid-19 lungs and description of typical Covid-19 symptoms at November 2019.
I disagree. People can do things about cancel culture, in particular, give a thought about whether something that people are saying about somebody is really true and whether to participate in an online boycott (of an individual) based on a 2nd hand experience. Especially if you're in a position of power, consider if you should give in to the mob, which might not even relate to you.
Overcoming Organisational Stupidity
Obamacare requires me to pay for health insurance directly for my 279 employees otherwise I must pay a ~$4k/head penalty to the IRS. The entire point of my original comment was to refute the notion that counting benefits as income is a “very Republican” idea, because it was a Democrat would thought of it and made it a law.
what did he actually do that you would consider "bad behaviour"? I know he's widely regarded as a blunt/offensive speaker, willing to speak his mind on topics most sensible people just keep quiet on, but has he actually harmed anybody? Committed any crimes?

[edit] this is a genuine question. I've seen him write edgy things but am not aware of any harm he's done to others.
Like adnauseum?
https://adnauseam.io/
As I've said before, RMS obviously has a flawed understanding of ASD and so his "self-undiagnosis" of it shouldn't be given a lot of weight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537802

And I agree that nobody other than a professional personally evaluating him should diagnose him with ASD (or anything), but he displays obvious traits of BAP (broad autism phenotype, subclinical ASD) – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537443 – and that's not a "diagnosis" because BAP is by definition not a diagnosis.
HaHa I think some point like the challenge until...
If you think there's been a period of history where you can say what you want, when you want, how you want and not end up dead in a ditch then I'd kindly ask you to reconsider that belief. There are many examples of people who have said things only to end up in a bad way as a result.

People have always been targeted for their words, or their beliefs, and sure, we have new ways of amplifying the narrative these days via social media and algorithms/AI, but I wanted to stress this is not new to humanity.

All it takes is one motivated human and they can wreck havoc on your life - it may be because you said something they took offense to or simply because they decided they no longer like you.

There's a lesson in all of this, think before you speak, and before you tweet. As many examples have taught us it will come back to haunt you.

If you want to be a public figure that comes with the job I'm afraid.
https://archive.md/RL4my
Being a pleasant inoffensive(to corporate sponsors) mommy is just one of many possible ways to lead people.

Another way is to lead by example with unrelenting commitment and drive.
As the more senior data analyst/ML person I've found myself taking on that role more and more. I've been 'relegating' the hands on modeling to the more junior members of the team, taking only a more supervisory/mentoring role when it comes to modelling. Quite frankly the modeling job is a lot easier and is more suitable for people fresh out of school, as it aligns more with what they've been studying.

Data collection/cleaning/labeling etc. and generating good data sets that solve the problem we're facing requires a lot more domain knowledge and experience, and quite frankly I'm a lot better and faster at it compared to a freshly minted Masters/PhD student.

I've seen far more ML projects fail because they couldn't get the right data set, and very few fail because they couldn't find the right model. So I'm getting more and more convinced that getting the data set right should be the primary responsibility of the most senior member(s) of the project team.
It might be demeaning. But it's still not sexist.
If that was true for the Evergreen ship, wouldn't they have dismantled the ship by now then? Not saying you're wrong overall, maybe it just doesn't apply to this particular shipment. As far as I know, we don't know exactly what is on the Ever Given.
I think that we do not know whether he is on the autism spectrum. There are articles where RMS states a suspicion but he never underwent an evaluation afaik.
> If you've been thoughtful in your reply, there should be no risk of repercussions.

I agree that there shouldn't be, but as life advice this is a bad thought to operate from. If someone doesn't like you or what you've said, there's always a way to put you in a bad light. With discourse that contains a lot of risk, it's probably better to just avoid it.
That's a fair point, but a smear campaign is not the right tool to achieve change to that end.

If we accept this process as valid just because we agree with the outcome, it is going to blow up right in our face.
We almost Linus Torwalds because of the cancel culture, would be a big loss to lose RMS because he is no longer good PR to have him, bonus points if some big business like Google or Red Hat could grab the leadership of FSF and GNU.

There was a few days back a post for people to support RMS and I admit I did not put my name on the list because i am afraid this could affect my future, cancel culture could get worse and my actions could be misinterpreted as the worse things possible(like I must support pedos if I support RMS).
I think many people, especially those in this and related threads, don't really understand a difference between a visionary and a decision maker. RMS is indeed a great visionary: his vision of software freedom was basically correct and even more so today. That doesn't automatically make him a great decision maker. There might even possibly be a weak negative correlation.

By all accounts, especially for recent decades, RMS had been a not-so-much-great decision maker and his resignation from FSF should have marked the end of the era no matter how you feel about that. Instead FSF chose to bring him back. Seriously, if out of the free software movement there were no decision maker better than RMS, then it is basically doomed by now. I don't feel so.
Oh. The irony :)
A talented asshole is a net liability. An untalented, nontoxic person can become a valuable contributor with the right training and mentoring.
> His argument is either a good or bad one

Well, I wish things were that easy, but life is not that black and white. Someone can be right and wrong at the same time.

> If anything his current position makes him an expert.

What? His position in Stripe makes him an expert on cryptocurrencies? As far as I know, Stripe doesn't deal with cryptocurrencies anymore, so his position in Stripe makes him biased against cryptocurrencies, not a general expert about cryptocurrencies.
If you weren't an enemy of communism you had nothing to fear against Russians and could speak to them openly.

If you aren't an enemy of feminism you have nothing to fear against female founders and can speak to them openly.
Cryptominers are sensitive to electricity prices so they seek to locate their operations where electricity is cheap. Simple logic dictates that they don't increase anyone's electricity price but taking advantage of the cheapest electricity there is.

As to "reducing availability": when was this electricity shortage caused by bitcoin miners?

It's astounding how easy it is to wage FUD and mis-information campaigns. Someone come up with this utterly idiotic argument of Bitcoin energy usage, it was picked up by the press, mindlessly repeated by people not willing to spend even few minutes dissecting it and now you can't have a HN article about Bitcoin without endless repetitions of this specious argument, which perpetuates it even more.
Hi bitwize, if one wanted to see a damning piece of evidence of these accusations, can you link to a page discussing said evidence? Or is this an opinion expressed by you knowing him personally?
heresy?
> did a good thing once

Discounting something as "a good thing once" sounds weird to me: many things require a huge amount of work to carry off, so "once" here can encompass dedicating someone's life work for decades, just for that one thing. (Sorry for going off topic, as I'm not commenting either way on your point, just on this phrase.)
Says a lot about the HN community that a lot of people need to post under throwaways because there are legit others would otherwise go after them or their employers

Say whatever you want about reddit but at least it's more anonym than this site
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I agree with you. It's driven by nothing more than sci-fi fantasy. Robots are the future of space travel and public funded inventions for those do end up bringing useful technological advances in the future.
Stallman is only one person on the board. It's quite a proven strategy to have people with vastly different skillsets on the board of an organisation.

In FSF's case, Stallman might be a good fit to contribute his software freedom ideas. As long as there are other people who can focus on PR.
Those of us on Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, IBM, Unisys, SAP, Oracle,... platforms mostly do pay for the whole stack, even if it means paying to various vendors.
Its quite clear what the 7 layers where for.

Your right that ISO's charging an arm and a leg for the printed docs was a mistake.

And the big switch only worked because it was done during the summer holidays and you could shut down things whilst it was done.

OSI would have not had the Omnishambles that is ipv6
> Richard Stallman has said some sexist and edgy things.

done some sexist and edgy things. On stage, spoken directly at women.

Also, Stallman is a totally incompetent leader - the project is sufficiently niche that I won't name it, but the maintainer mentioned to me that he entered rms's bad book merely by virtue of having children.
>Thus, the future of the GPL is entirely in the hand of a few people who picked themselves so to say.

What does this even mean? As Linux staying on v2 shows, the FSF doesn't have any real control over GPL licenses. And I'm fairly sure the only limitation on modifying the GPL myself is I couldn't use the word "GNU."
I remember reading there was a lot of defects in eInk displays? So the bigger the screen, the bigger the chance of defects, hence the exponential price increase.
That doesn't seem like a fair characterization. Yeah, a lot of the names do look Slavic, but what makes you believe they're bots?
We can't weigh the positive impact a person has had against the unrealised potential for positive impact from all those they forced out of the community. We just don't know if Stallman is a net-positive because we'll never get to see the alternative case.

Given this, we can't use an "end justify the means" argument, which means we have to hold people accountable in isolation from any positive impact they may have had.
... has a certificate of disposition by the Criminal Court of the City of New York, saying that the case against him was dismissed and sealed on June 5, 1997.
On Norbert Wiener's Relationship with Bertrand Russell
Some guy wants him removed from the GCC steering committee too [0]

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-March/235091.html
Hey,

I don't think there any many good lists of VCs, Investors etc in general. A friend of mine in the UK is making the "GlassDoor for VCs" which is making great progrss.

I do a fair few investments a year (4-5) a year.

This is a great book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32600757-angel
which isn't particularly surprising if people are worried about getting cancelled.

(FWIW I haven't signed either, and don't know enough about RMS' actions to commit to a perspective).