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The creator of x265 is not an unbiased source.
Coronavirus ‘worse than a bomb’ on Italy, says doctor coordinating response
His personal blog isn't relevant.
This shows at least some increase from Lombardy...?

http://www.salute.gov.it/imgs/C_17_pagineAree_5351_4_file.pd...

vs. yesterday

http://www.salute.gov.it/imgs/C_17_pagineAree_5351_2_file.pd...

And the day before...

http://www.salute.gov.it/imgs/C_17_pagineAree_5351_0_file.pd...

The drop in new Lombardy cases is precipitous, I agree, we'll know for sure in a couple days.
I think instead of disambiguating between good and bad bots, they should just allow 'bot accounts' @NAME - bot. If bots want to do their thing, that is fine, and there's certainly a place for bot accounts, it's just when they mascaraed as people.

I'm not sure how you separate them out entirely, I would assume that twitter knows though.
"ratfucking"? Classy.

I don't agree with him but I feel a bit sorry for him. He's passionate about this and he believes what he's saying. Perhaps nothing could make him see things differently, but banning him definitely won't.
> So now you have only 2 option in Safari - allow ALL cookies or block all cookies.

Didn't they make blocking of 3rd party cookies the default? If I browse privately and look at the cookies on my machine by going to Prefs > Privacy > Manage Web Site Data, I don't see any cookies showing up after I've closed a page.
Austin pulled their permit; they were left with no choice (SXSW)
aside from the other issues mentioned here, alternative encodings like ISO8601 and others are human-readable and human-editable
For those who haven't seen it and don't want to read the whole thread (though they should!), the IMO most salient part:

5/ Patients above 65 or younger with comorbidities are not even assessed by ITU, I am not saying not tubed, I’m saying not assessed and no ITU staff attends when they arrest. Staff are working as much as they can but they are starting to get sick and are emotionally overwhelmed.

6/ My friends call me in tears because they see people dying in front of them and they con only offer some oxygen. Ortho and pathologists are being given a leaflet and sent to see patients on NIV. PLEASE STOP, READ THIS AGAIN AND THINK.
ESR has contributed remarkably little in terms of code, and a huge amount of politics of his own.

> There is no "be nice" rule in life

Golden Rule?
> The crucial question is whether anyone would be banned for calling ESR a toxic lunatic

Well, assume that ESR was running for a board seat at OSI, and that the person did so shortly before the board elections. Maybe they wouldn't be banned for it, but one could argue whether that would be the right call. It's an interesting analogy, because the "folk" perception of both E. S. Raymond and C. A. Ehmke is quite similar, in a way.
Damn this looks pretty promising.
It's not meant to be read so literally. Going further on that route, "yesterday" is definitely not "history" and what comes tomorrow may be a mystery at some level but "tomorrow" itself is not a mystery. It's just the following day.

If you look at the spirit of the message instead, you'll see that it does have something valuable to say.
Now you are bringing in your own narrative to a dictionary definition. My case is that the parent comment seems to put credentials before a valid argument, which is what I am against. Credentials are not a proxy for a sound argument.
Guessing one of the highest velocity teams on the planet
Reading the quote from Kick https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539826 doesn't say that. It seems a bit off base to me, but so what? People aren't all good or all bad. They aren't an authority on everything they have an opinion on. That is what makes appeal to authority so dangerous. I don't think it's possible for any strong opinion to please everyone. To me the question really does boil down to whether freedom of speech is truly supported within the open source community. True freedom of speech allows all opinions, even the disgusting ones so that hair splitting censorship can't drown out dissent.
I don't think homogenized is a bad thing though, it standardizes the process, and with swings in the market (e.g. emergence and dissapearance of SoftBank) we see deals change accordingly. By all accounts terms have changed dramatically from what they used to look like in the 80s to now, and an oligopoly is not a monopoly. Founders have some semblance of market power now, and with increased transparency people know what they're getting into and are able to make sure they're getting a deal on par with what they deserve. The competition on valuation is probably the most important part now given that most other terms are standardizes and generally founder friendly (and I don't think terms are as homogeneous among all investors as you might think, there are some crazy termsheets out there...)
the USSR withdrew from Austria completely. Why? Well, Stalin was not one to share his strategic thinking with the public, so we can only guess. Probably he did not want to deal with a "West Vienna" along the lines of "West Berlin". But who knows.

Stalin died in 1953. The Soviet Union retreated from Austria in 1955. Your theory is wrong.
I think the most important thing is to ask CLEARLY for what you want. Do you have a specific list of social distancing practices you would like them to implement? Do you want them to stockpile supplies? How many supplies? What is on your shopping list?

"Please take this seriously" is not a request. It's barely even english. It also contains an out of context judgement which you should also try to avoid. Use objective observations instead. So rather than saying "I think you're irresponsible", tell them the actual concrete things they said or did, that led you to that assessment. Something like "I notice you rode the bus during peak hours five times last week." is an example of an objective observation, devoid of judgement or criticism.
Umm, Zinus is a South Korean company that was in business well before Casper was, and has a higher market cap. :-)

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/013890:KS
This is dangerous. Sure criticize for-profit pharma but it will cause harm to tell others who are struggling to ignore the huge of amount of research on different pharmacological treatments that are over and over again proven to be more effective than placebo.

The meds I'm on have no profit built in. It's like $8 for 90 day supply. The research shows it's so effective that it even lifts mood/energy/sociability for non-diagnosed mood disorder patients (without giving away too much personal detail it was originally an effective treatment for something unrelated to mental health).

If anything these 'change your attitude' or 'tips' kind of articles get under my skin a bit. For many changing habits can be helpful, especially CBT with professional guidance, but for many actual major depressive disorder patients no amount of habit or behavior changes will have meaningful effect without actual medicine.
That sort of language is normal in the parliament houses of the developed world, upon which our constitutional democracies are based.

If there is some sort of evidence that the candidate in question is in fact a toxic loonytoon, by some sort of objective standard, then it's perfectly fine to use that language.

At some point, you have to call a spade a spade, and a toxic loonytoon a toxic loonytoon.
This reads a lot like quackery to this former RN & nursing educator. Good nutrition is, of course, a great way to stay healthy, but this article isn't really helpful in that regard.
Coronavirus is mysteriously sparing kids and killing the elderly
1. YUK
2. ISO 8601 is a better format for this.
Below email is the quoted statement:

ts originator is a toxic loonytoon who believes "show me the code"
> meritocracy is at best outmoded and in general a sinister supremacist
> plot by straight white cisgender males."

I think open source has a serious problem in the sense that there are a lot of projects headed by single, rather abusive and obsessed individuals. And moreover, where a stream of obscenities in an email is considered a normal way of communicating, accompanied by a "if you don't like the heat, stay out of the kitchen" attitude. "Show me the code meritocracy" can be more or less this.

My guess is that OSI has been attempting to change the situation. Part of the change would demanding people avoid streams of "strong language" as ESR uses above. Moroever, I suspect people already said "we're aiming for a better standard of communication".

As far the practical value goes, I'm not sure if there is an easy way to change the situation. Installing an ombudsman on projects is kind of hard given the projects are indeed going to belong to those who produce a lot of decent code. People create open source software that scratches their itch, not to conform to others' values.
How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion (2016)
Biggest game changers for my depression:

* Magnesium glycinate 1200mg/day

* More sunlight

* Expressing Really difficult feelings

* cutting out all caffeine
> conflating a code of conduct with "political ratfucking"

There are strong criticisms of CoCs and questioning of the necessity of that. I don't think that's too much of a reach in how that was communicated. A bit exaggerated yes.
There's a respondent on the page suggesting OBS, the Open Broadcaster Software. I think that's the way to go. If you need to feed it in to Zoom or Skype or something, you should be able to use OBS-VirtualCam (haven't tried it myself, yet) https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.539/

one camera aimed at you, and another one aimed at your desk, with some different scenes set up in OBS for focusing on you, the desk, or some powerpoint slides.

then let students use the textual chat feature. (just plain superior to taking audio from 20+ students simultaneously. that'll never turn out well.)
The comments I quoted say that today's Lombardy update is partial - deaths are counted in, but total cases not yet. That's apparently as of 3-4 hours ago, told in the Italian TV just after the numbers report.

I.e. the first PDF you link doesn't have complete numbers per official government admission.
Well, maybe read Flash Boys by Michael Lewis - it's literally what all the banks are doing - allowing HFT traders into their dark pools to front run client orders, and they get a cut of it.

Robinhood could be making money in a couple ways:

- Fulfilling orders inside the RH pool/market making. Not sure if they are big enough, but they could be acting as an exchange. The matchmaking could be "imperfect" if you see what I mean. Essentially front running.

- Selling access to the client orders to HFT firms that do the front running and pay handsomely for the privilege. Again, this is pretty fucked up - you never get a real, fair view of the market and are always overpaying for your orders.

Again, read Flash Boys. Will blow your mind.
What relevance does his personal opinion on homosexuality, expressed on his personal blog, have to his participation in an OSI mailing list about open source licensing?
Show HN: Sanitracker – in-stock alerts for hand sanitizer
https://twitter.com/SaniTracker
This is a quick twitter bot I threw together to track when Hand Sanitizer comes back in-stock on Target and Walmart (Soon to be Amazon). This is mostly just for laughs, however, it is a functioning product. I still need to work out a few bugs and add new retailers. I would appreciate any suggested features or retailers.
I have a friend whose boss likes to 'go for a walk' or 'catch up whilst we head over to X'. Naturally she's wearing high heels and it's a fucking nightmare for her.
80 is a magic number for anyone who's been in the computer industry for a while.
Hah, it's hinted at in the movie but Stalin was actually something of a performing arts (and theatre in particular) superfan - that's why the Hamlet bit caught my eye.
> I've heard of multiple schools that ended up with NeXT labs where almost nobody used them.

My university was one of these. We had a huge lab filled with shiny NeXT cubes... which, for reasons unknown, was owned by the communications department.

Just try to imagine the befuddlement of a bunch of early ‘90s journalism majors who have just been seated in front of Unix workstations. No matter what you imagine, I guarantee the reality was worse.
Sensible; if the price/perf ratio is good then AWS would be kinda dumb not to move all their internal stuff to use it. And they control the whole stack and don't expose internals to users for their own services (ELBs, Route 53, probably RDS, etc), so it should be relatively straightforward from an engineering perspective.
I think it’s pretty clear that OSI does not want to be a “BDSM but we build something along the way” group.
I've read a bunch of ESR's writing, and I disagree with him on an awful lot of political and social issues. Chances are we wouldn't get along very well.

Tone-policing, cancel culture, and identity politics are a real problem though, and it seems like they're getting out of hand. This is happening everywhere though - it's not unique to the open source world at all.

I don't know what the right solution is.

ESR and RMS (who recently got removed from the FSF) helped create the open-source movement that we have today. And they both were instrumental popularizing the hacker counter-culture that dominated Linux during its rise to prominence.

Would I like them as people? Maybe. Probably not. I don't know. It seems wrong to marginalize them and cast them aside though, even if they're socially awkward or say the wrong thing sometimes.
I didn't claim 64-bit ints, I claimed 53-bit ints. How often do you use ints in the range from 54 to 64 bits? I'm willing to bet it's close to never. That's what I meant by "most". You have to consider the distribution.
I find it rather concerning that they're that quick to ban him for voicing dissidence. Was there anyone threatened by his speech?
I meant it as factual rather than inspirational. It is daunting for sure, but every person in this journey will find out about it as soon as they take that first step. And most people around will not understand, and will not be able to help and support appropriately without that understanding.
You don't even need rationalwiki, wikipedia itself has some choice comments-

> In 2015 Raymond accused the Ada Initiative and other women in tech groups of attempting to entrap male open source leaders and accuse them of rape, saying "Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a 'women in tech' advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp."

> Raymond has claimed that "Gays experimented with unfettered promiscuity in the 1970s and got AIDS as a consequence", and that "Police who react to a random black male behaving suspiciously who might be in the critical age range as though he is an near-imminent lethal threat, are being rational, not racist."
XML is frequently used as a computer-to-computer interchange format, and it has comments.
How bout we first ban articles behind paywalls?
At what point does it become criminally incompetent? What's the endgame here for those who dally while the world burns?
Other quotes from the chain by ESR about Eric Schultz:

> I am not fooled. You are mounting an ideological attack on our core principles of liberty and nondiscrimination. You will not succeed while I retain any ability to oppose this.

and

> Because that way he couldn't use our prestige to advance his goals. He couldn't use OSI to pretend to be pro-freedom while actually being against freedom.

Both of these messages are hostile, assume bad faith and (as noted by some supporters of ESR's position) unhelpful for resolving the issue.
I was responding to an assertion about who has the moral high ground here.

The law does not dictate this. Repercussions that stem from breaking the law also have no bearing on whether or not an action can be morally justified.

You are talking about whether a position can be legally justified. The two are not the same thing.
Thanks! Your `msgpack-tools` are really handy. When I use MessagePack usually I'll add it as an option to an endpoint (`/api/request/123?type=mpack`) in addition to json but there's still cases where having a mpack-to-json tool comes in handy.
I doubt OSI has stated a "culture of abuse" as their goal, their CoC even indicates the opposite.

If someone and his three friends want to be politically incorrect, great, let them.

If they open up their little club to the world at large, without any indication that their club is "special", then I guess the world is right to assume some standards of behaviour.
> It seems like AlphaGoZero was able to do just end-to-end ML because it was able to use a very clear and "objective" standard, whether a program wins or loses at the game of Go.

Just a fun note: winning or losing at the game of Go is actually surprisingly subjective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)#Scoring_rules
Because it's not actually obvious who can effectively participate in them. Are you checking your meeting participants for suitable footwear, asthma, underlying allergies, chronic health conditions they'd rather not disclose to colleagues...
> The new Tesla roadster coming soon(TM) does 0-60 mph in 1.9 seconds

Except it hasn't, because the production version does not exist. I don't even think the 1.9 second claim has been verified for the prototype.
Soviet Union even made pocket computers that were electronically (not just software!) compatible with PDP-11 peripherals, if you dared to open the case and solder a connection.

There are also rumours that around 1980, there was a design at Digital that could have led to a PDP-10 workstation, but Digital wanted to kill PDP-10.
> I think open source has a serious problem in the sense that there are a lot of projects headed by single, rather abusive and obsessed individuals.

Why not fork those projects and makes those awesome forks full of code with unicorns and glitter?

If those single rather abusive individuals have to compete with code + unicorns + glitter, I'm certainly going to switch to that and I bet the others will too
> RMS decided to resign since he felt it was for the good of the organization, and he could no longer be effective there.

That's just the cover story, and nobody in their right mind buys it.

It was more likely a "you can appear to go spontaneously, or there will be a big fuss and you will be out anyway".

It's the same old thing like when any public figure "steps down" in the midst of a scandal. That just means they picked the least unpalatable item from a menu that was handed to them, so to speak.

RMS had no more real option to stay at the helm of the FSF than he had to keep that MIT office.
It's absolutely legitimate to have a F/OSS-licensed project with such a culture. But it shouldn't count as part of the F/OSS movement(s), any more than an MIT-licensed website about how you need to pay SCO for Linux licenses would be part of the movement.
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Intel Abandoning 10nm, Planning to Use TSMC’s 6nm and 3nm for GPUs
Next is limited to browsers and doesn't prescribe how you access data. I would compare redwood to meteor.js but not next.js.
this is all positively ridiculous.

Do you calculate all your other hobbies like this? You probably have "spent" millions playing video games
What’s wrong with anti-competitive behavior in big tech?
Folding home – Fighting disease with a world wide distributed super computer
The Scammers of Harvard Law's Bruce Hay and the “Nigerian Prince” Filter (2019)
A place I worked replaced its Suns with Dells. I couldn't believe they would do such a thing, since each Sun had to be replaced with three Dells to do the equivalent job.

When I asked about it, the answer was simple: Three Dells were cheaper than one Sun.
In a way that may be a good thing. I'm personally not very worried about this virus, and I think it does a great job of highlighting what various parties' motives are and efficacies are. (e.g. CDC, Bill Gates, NYC)

I'm hopeful change will come out of this.
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The area is now, and was then, densely populated.

Here's an article (in Swedish) about the roads in Skåne.

Covers a long period.

https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2017-03-25/alla-landsvagar-bar-ti...

Malmö was even then Sweden's third largest city. Copenhagen was a global city and Denmark the center of European pork production. Prussia's huge estates were the foundation for the aristocracies' wealth.

To get goods to market, or to a rail hub, good roads helped a lot.
It's the difference between a doctor, or more likely a highly trained nurse in most facilities, making the decision and government bureaucrat making the decision. It likely also implied the decision being made based on what choice saves the most lives (doctor/nurse) vs what is economically or politically desirable for the decider (bureaucrat).
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.

The OSI has their own rights as well, and part of their own freedom of speech is that they get to chose who does or doesn't use their platform for speech.
What happens if you lose your trusted device?
I know the world is going to change because of COVID-19. I'm just not sure how much, or for how long. If one good thing comes out of this, forcing every college teacher in the US to teach remotely for the rest of the semester might lead to some interesting innovation!
The same argument could have been made when the ppm image format was replaced with binary formats like JPEG.

Nobody says "what a shame I can't open that jpeg image in a text editor".

Everyone understands that an image is an image, and there are tools for dealing with images, like photoshop.

The same could be said for data interchange formats like json.
Did I say they did? The GP poster just made a unilateral assertion, and I was trying to point out a case where the assertion is false. That case doesn't apply here; but nor should you implicitly accept the GP's conclusion (that ESR should be kicked out of this community), since one of the premises used in their argument (that all FOSS "must be kind") isn't true-as-stated.

When you want to do something as serious as exiling someone from cyberspace, you need a high standard of rigor in your arguments; and you need to be wary of thinking you can "read through" rhetoric to "what they clearly meant", without having false claims made for rhetorical purpose still affecting your judgement.

I invite the GP to restate their argument with more precision, and see if it still sounds compelling.