skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When science is viewed in isolation from the past and politics, it’s easier for those with bad intentions to revive dangerous and discredited ideas."

Shouldn't science always, without any exception, be viewed in isolation from the past and politics?

I feel like the only reason this idea that science shouldn't revolve solely around the practice of the scientific method, and the observation and application of the results of experimentation, is being entertained is because people are posting these viewpoints in high-profile places like Nature.
Any individual or group can do whatever they want in the OSS world, nobody is stopping anyone from being a jerk except those communities that voluntarily self-govern in such a fashion that excludes jerks. Where's the problem?
> But it shouldn't count as part of the F/OSS movement

Why not? If the end result is a high quality piece of open source software, why do I need to care about the politics or behavior of the developers?

The only reason I can think of would be from a risk-assessment standpoint, i.e. is another censorious asshole going to waltz on in and damage the team that produces this product so that it dies and becomes orphaned.

Why anyone would want to contribute to a project they don't like the developers of is beyond me; either fork it or go do something else. It's not a requirement. This is not your livelihood, for the most part. Just walk away.

Maybe if censorious assholes could just step the fuck off, and let people be, this would be less of a problem. As far as I can see, they've caused far more problems and far more discontent than anyone posting aggressively has ever done.
Unbelievable these events are going ahead. A number of travelers returning to Australia from the USA have contracted COVID19, indicating the disease is more widespread than admitted by the government.

The Formula 1 Grand Prix is going ahead in Australia this weekend, which is equally poor.
I thought I’d heard the term “mind palace” before but couldn’t remember from where (oh the irony). Google reminded me!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/secrets-sherlock...
Damn you, you made me actually count them! :-p
Just for information - "reply" takes longer and longer to appear the further down a tree you get. I assume it's to stop a rapid fire heated argument and force some reflection time.
Any idea who that may be?
Good to know ... otherwise a possible future would involve hunting and waging war for the few ice comets ..
What's going on in FOSS these days is that the world of large, multi-national corporations, as well as governments, has become dependent on FOSS for critical infrastructure.

These players want volunteers to do free work for them, but otherwise to be in control.

They can't have some scruffy old ultra-libertarians who speak their mind running the projects; they want weaklings and pushovers.

To be in control means being able to inject dubious changes into code that are against the interests of the public. Crypto Backdoors, DRM, vendor-specific crap, subversions of open standards, you name it.
Zapped Beans?
TSMC has a new process called N7P EUV that has a higher density than Intel's 10nm process[0], in production since last year. They also are on track to have their N5 process in production next year, which is supposed to have an even higher density[1]. Obviously, N5 isn't in prod yet so this is just a roadmap, maybe they'll hit roadblocks like intel here.

But still, it's disingenuous to claim that Intel is trying something that wasn't achieved by TSMC already. TSMC has already beaten Intel on transistor density fair and square.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process#7_nm_process_node...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nm_process#5_nm_process_node...
Very surprised to see that reproduction cost was <<10% of total budget. I would assume that this would only hold for small scale biology with low variable costs and standard equipment like in vitro cell biology and computational work. A different financial approach is likely necessary for setups with high variable and fixed costs (e.g. animal and human work). Not saying it shouldn't be a required part of the funding but the speed of science changes if you need to spend 50% of your budget on reproduction.
> ESR has done SO MUCH for us,

I think I used fetchmail once. Did you have something else in mind?
See this reporting:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/health/coronavirus-testin...

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-03-06/chaos-at-ho...
Dictionaries aren't weapons.
And that's why political activist infestations should be dealt with quickly and forcefully, before they get a chance to fester and take over the host.

ESR: "The effect – the intended effect – is to diminish the prestige and autonomy of people who do the work – write the code – in favor of self-appointed tone-policers. In the process, the freedom to speak necessary truths even when the manner in which they are expressed is unpleasant is being gradually strangled."

Which is what happened in the end.
At the risk of sounding naive: what's the alternative?
The open source community might want to think long and hard about ceding control to groups of people that proudly list their mental illnesses in their twitter bios (like actually, they really fucking do this). I predict a serious split in open source culture once people realize they have been played by narcissists seeking power.
What it would look like: an army of docile microserfs beavering away for free to make FOSS work better for Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Oracle, IBM, ... and the odd government who wants a crypto backdoor or two.
I think communities have the right to decide on what kind of engagement they want.

ESR could be acting within the community standards of OSI, in which case I don't think he should be banned.

I also find the way he engages to be more hostile than I'm comfortable with and probably wouldn't want to work an environment where it was the norm.
Sure polymer fumes are bad, but this is about oiling a bike chain.
He is banished for being an ass, not for his exhaustive level-headed critique of known supermarxist coraline ada ehmke /s
> I'm not aware of any organization that promotes "true freedom of speech" to that extreme. I don't want the government shutting ESR down, but I would never hire someone who has said what he says about race, gender, or sexuality.

Promoting something isn't the same thing as supporting or allowing it. Many mailing lists have allowed a self governing style of free speech. If you don't want to hear from someone, you add then to your banlist. The extreme and consistently offensive get marginalized by each person, rather than by a singular authority.

Your comment about never hiring someone who was said what ESR says about race, gender, or sexuality is a broad and unspecific brush. I've read the links provided, what specifically did he say, and when that would make him un-hireable forever?
I developed this a while ago and it was used as gate check in a Linux Foundation project. Its essentially the same as the OP project (regex based), but without the GUI.

https://anteater.github.io/
I pace when I'm thinking about work stuff. I find that being upright and mobile keeps me more alert and focused than slouching in my chair, in front of a distraction jukebox. Some people I work with like it (though, they joke that I should buy a school with a racetrack to walk around...)

I would love for walking meetings to become the norm. Though, I'm aware that there's a lot of folks who are the exact opposite.
Nice!! I use a ton of tables in the react apps I make on the job, so I'm excited to try this out. Thanks for making it open source.
> but you'd have to follow the "safe, sane and consensual" rules.

Those rules are entirely arbitrary and were made up as part of this new Code of Conduct bullshit. They didn't used to exist and plenty of productive developers contributed plenty of useful code. You're arguing the rules matter from within the context of the rules; that's begging the question.

> long term psychological effects of participating in a community where "nobody is kind to anybody" are

99% of people toughen up and move on with their lives and learn to not be so serious.

1% of people don't manage to do this. Some subset of that 1% get mad about it, and now they're using this as a hammer against massive numbers of normal, volunteer developers who just wanted to happily code without having to acquiesce to a particular brand of American progressivist moral licensing.
"I haven't been here for 20 years but I've come to fix all your problems. I will not be nice while I do that."

In what possible world do you expect such a story to end any other way, regardless of the forum and people involved?
and I'm a dumbass and put a typo in the url. correct is www.meshtastic.org
I mean, TFA is about an exploit exclusive to Intel SGX processors, which of course includes E3 Xeons.
Little Known Company's Shares Surge as Investors Confuse It with Zoom
> Who is going to pay the bill

The people that have the money to do so.
Well okay, if you insist: Eric S. Raymond is a toxic loonytoon. And there’s plenty of evidence to support that assertion.
Robinhood got in trouble (FINRA) for not taking the requirement to get the best price seriously though.

It is common to pay for order flow, but it appears that Robinhood turned out to be exactly the sort of crooks that their customers assumed all the rest of the brokers were.

It's instructive how you can be cynical, and believe that equates to sophistication, and end up conning yourself.
Maybe a better metric would be % of ICU utilization.
Making creators accountable to bureaucratic values using cynical techniques like whisper campaigns and deplatforming will destroy the culture and technologies it produced.

FOSS was started as a divergence from corporate bureaucratic software, and now political bureaucracy is coopting and subverting it.

An intolerant minority is poisoning the well of creativity in multiple disciplines by subverting the organizations that support it instead of producing the tools people want and use. It's the same crowd that is causing campus problems. These people aren't civil or "nice," they're nihilists who understand bureaucratic power and align with whatever meaningless words achieve their end.

It's not just right/left either, this particular flavor of bureaucracy affects progressivism, but it's a wave of the same force that hollows out creative endeavors and turns them into hosts for bureaucratic governance.

The only way to defeat it is individual competence and peer recognition of the excellence of their work, which people who exploit bureaucracy are necessarily incapable.

Rant over, but this issue is crucial to everything from net neutrality, crypto policy and backdoors, and software freedom everywhere. It cannot be allowed to be shut down.
Not sure about "death panels" specifically, but like was mentioned, this is called "triage".

Basically we don't have resources to help everyone. The resources we do have need to be strategically used, spreading them too thin might not benefit anyone at all. So a tough decision has to be made: "Where do we spend our resources for maximum efficiency?"

Not saying that it's the correct decision, that there isn't bad stuff going on, etc. But when health infrastructure is overwhelmed be events such as this, the tough decisions have to be made - you can't save everyone.
Ask HN: How is your team preparing for Covid-19 isolation?
Our (London based) company will be 100% working from home starting next week to try to pre-empt the effects of covid 19 infection.

It's common for people to work from home, but we aren't a remote first company so I expect there will be some things that just don't go that smoothly.

We will be using slack and hangouts, conducting all the same meetings as usual via video hangouts.

How are other companies preparing for this sudden shift? Any tips from remote first people?
Even GP flailed it and put the 'not' in the wrong place. Should be "They have shown themselves not to be a reliable partner."
Yes, terrible for any metal on metal. It's only real use is as a degreaser.

Don't believe me? Put it on a bike chain and go for a ride. The whole thing will bind up in no time. It will also rust much faster. You can use it to strip old dirty lubricant, before applying fresh lubricant. But not as a lubricant.

I've been told this by no fewer than three people: shop teacher, bike shop owner and a mill wright. I've personally destroyed a bike chain with it as a kid, and I've seen other people destroy bike chains with wd-40.

It may have a bit of lubricant in it, but it is not sufficient.
Being a prior mod of a city sub.. "toxic loonytoon" is a rather light thing to be called.

My concern is if you're drawing the line over this what you're communicating to people is that you cannot negatively sum up another individual, even when it's warranted. A productive conversation can be had on the merits of the label. Are you trying to incentivize long posts about all of the non-sensical policies that the individual is pushing?
Why does opening up your rude little club imply anything of the sort? Why would you join a club that you don't enjoy the discourse within? I don't understand how people can't see that participation in all of this is 100% voluntary. This isn't like inclusion and diversity efforts in corporate enterprise, this is a different beast, and over-corporatizing it defeats the reasons why many people moved to working in / on open source stuff to start with.
Shouldn’t this link directly to the Readme?

https://github.com/google-research/google-research/blob/mast...
It sounds like I'm trying to debunk you, but I just want to answer your questions.

I work as an HPC administrator and I just want to tell a single thing:

We were unable to buy first generation EPYC processors because almost all of the production run is bought by Google, Amazon and Dropbox. They weren't offered by many vendors as general availability servers because it wasn't possible.

It's a bit late here so, I cannot do much research but I'll leave this Phoronix article [0] about RocksDB performance.

Phoronix Test Suite sounds a bit cheesy but, as far as I can see, it's becoming a reputable benchmark suite. I was troubleshooting a server from a big manufacturer and, its official live CD has this thing installed to see how system performs.

Also our fellow HPC centers says that EPYC is not vaporware in terms of performance.

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-am...
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

“I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

“Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

“I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

“Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

“So that the room will be empty.”

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
Once again, another person has been arrested and unfortunately cancelled by those who disagree with him over wrong-think. The OSI isn't really doing anyone favours over banning people like ESR because they have an opposing view over changing the organisation's policy, they just make the whole argument a one-sided echo-chamber which isn't healthy for any org if one is concerned about some changes like ESR was.

The cancel-culture attitude over people who you disagree with is so dangerous to any organisation. It's like it has become a crime on the internet these days. If someone was to say an opposing opinion with evidence towards a PC crowd, they will be locked up in the dungeon, charged with high treason and banished forever.
Autodetect data health issues and auto fix them

Funy you say that cos my company is actually developing something along those lines
Oh, lots of ESR fanboys here today! Can someone of you please explain exactly what it is that makes ESR a great hacker/programmer?
One of my coworkers daughters is affected by this.

The big question this begs:

If there is no refund being offered for the content shifting online from in-person, why have in-person at all?

Is room and board going to be refunded?

If courses being taught online is an acceptable substitute, why have caps on admission at all?
Edit: Understood that infinite sized classes aren't workable for human intensive grading, interactions, etc.
I've had better experience with the consumer/gaming tools than I have with "Business" tools. It's probably because they stay more focussed whilst the business tools morph into hydras as part of their data lock-in strategies (here's looking at you, Slack).
Without sources and specific primary citations, I find it hard not to read this comment as spewing hatred and toxic lies.
I'd prefer 90 days and then unconditional publishing. I grant that making companies' desire for silence actually affect the bottom line has appeal, but 1. some companies have deep pockets, and 2. I'm not ethically comfortable with anything of the form "pay me to not disclose this bad thing".
Yelp gives senators its list of grievances against Google in antitrust hearing
> engaging in good faith is about taking what people say in collaborative environments as given in good faith.

Or at the very least explaining rationally why you feel the other person is not acting in good faith.
They used to post the number of tests on the site. They've stopped.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health//health-topics/coronavi...

if you pull up the cached version, they reported 300 tests done as of yesterday morning.
My message was based on his posts about the situation.
Never had to write down a DOS or Windows path?
Yes, but it is taking a round-trip walk for the purpose of a meeting, not squeezing the meeting on the walk from "task A destination" to "task B destination", as would occur in a Sorkin show.
I'm not sure I need a tinfoil hat at this point to imply that the people who are supposed to mitigate the effects of this pandemic have no objective quantification of how pervasive the spread of this disease is already.

I'd be willing to wager that if there was a good enough historic and near enough to realtime dataset of individuals entering the ER with pneumonia, and this disease is actually atypical for the season: that the ramp actually started more than a month ago in some regions.

Although I do wonder if the necessity of some pre-existing condition to perpetuate the development of the disease might present some type of choke in the significance of the anomalous nature of the thing..

Anyone know of any dataset like this? It would be really interesting to consider.
This could very well be a "they let Jack remain CEO" dangle, so I'm going to be waiting for another shoe to drop. People will jump on it right away and one of those people will be the first to get burned by whatever develops (and I'm pretty sure there will be burning in the future), and we'll hear about it then. That's the point at which I'll decide to participate or not.
That plow was patented in 1797. If the $30k was $30k then, it would be about $450k now.

I doubt, though, that it was $30k then. Blacksmiths in 1800 on average made under $1/day [1]. It would be very rare for a blacksmith then to be able to put $30k toward an invention. (For comparison, $25k/year was the salary of the President of the United States then).

If the $30k is $30k now, it would have been about $2000 back then. That seems feasible for a blacksmith to save up in around a decade or so.

[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89071501472&view=1...
Song from Vietnamese Health Department about fighting coronavirus
I recently provisioned a "micro-" instance...the smallest possible server available, as I fell hook, line, and sinker for the "FREE 12 months!" promotion that turned out to be totally false.

For 3 months, I was charged $11,$23, and finally $4 for 3 days of the 3rd months, where I QUICKLY cancelled the server...this is OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive for a single processor, 1G RAM, 30GB SSD cloud server!

$37 for some 64 days is totally overpriced. You can get high quality low cost cloud servers for less then $5/month, and if you purchase a full year, half that.

Amazon really disappointed me with their FREE bait-n-switch bullshit marketing, and I will NEVER recommend their low end servers again.
What you described here is basically how Next.js works :)

The blog post mentions the 3 APIs that make this possible:

- getStaticProps (Static Generation): Fetch data at build-time.

- getStaticPaths (Static Generation): Specify dynamic routes to prerender based on data.

- getServerSideProps (Server-Side Rendering): Fetch data on each request.
By the "takes one to know one" principle, we should pay attention to Raymond when the calls out another toxic loonytoon.
Mostly the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox.

I've seen a few cases now where a FOSS project community—one that is nominally open to new members, but is in practice a closed and static group of close-knit friends—starts off all perfectly happy with a sort of raunchy/abusive internal demeanor; but then someone comes to them with a suggestion of some Code of Conduct or other standard of decorum; and then everyone suddenly decides that it's a good idea, not because they personally want to change how they interact, or even to see others interact differently with them, but because they don't want to be the one caught arguing against the CoC if it turns out that everyone else wants it.
Scientists Linked Artificial and Biological Neurons in a Network
Persol used his face for a major ad campaign in Tokyo, so it must be for a reason. https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/unna...
> I’m disappointed at the hostility for pointing out fanboyism on HN

Because it very much comes across as though you've got an axe to grind. OP was "maybe sort of" going to build an AMD box, for which there are a lot of good reasons irrespective of the bug on topic, and this set him over the top.

His post doesn't really exude fanboy behavior, and your comment - while possibly appropriate for some other post - isn't really appropriate to OP.
When I was in college, studying EE, we had HP oscilloscopes and digital logic analyzers. I can't remember for sure, but I think it was the logic analyzers that had an easter egg that if you held down a specific set of buttons while powering on, you could play Tetris on it. I also remember the oscilloscope being so sensitive, that without any leads connected, it could detect the signal of someone walking by it.
The US only does 0.18% of Covid-19 testing done in China per capita
It's a conversation that sometimes comes up with universal healthcare, for example (I'm not taking a stance here) - "Is it worth spending $$$$ tax payer money on an operation with a 20% success rate on 95 year old who also has diseases X, Y and Z?"

If such rules are written then it would be bureaucratic.
Calling a person a "toxic loonytoon" for the offense of trying to establish standards of acceptable behavior is ridiculous by any sort of "objective standard". If anything, it demonstrates the importance of having those standards, by serving as an example of the sort of behavior that such a standard should condemn.
Why would we legislate it when the underdog is winning? This is the market fixing itself without help.