skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be a good thing then. This has become a pet peeve of mine.

At the last FOSDEM there was a talk on "open source under attack" claiming that anything other than permissive licensing represents an attack on open source:

https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/osi/

Two of the three presenters were lawyers for Google and Facebook, two giant surveillance companies with absolutely closed SaaS silo ecosystems. Evidently the "spirit of open source" is free labor for surveillance capitalism and pop-up SaaS products that monetize open source with paywalled APIs and give nothing back.

FOSDEM != OSI, but there's a common DNA here.
> If there is no refund being offered for the content shifting online from in-person, why have in-person at all?

There isn't really a good reason other than some people being more disciplined when there's a human instructor that they see face to face every couple days. Plenty of people self-teach from MOOCs, MIT OCW, or just buying the textbooks and working through the exercises and get just as good an education.

When you go to an elite college, you're really paying for the degree. This is also why there are caps on admission: it creates scarcity value for graduates from that university. When there are fewer graduates with a credential, companies that want to employ them have to compete for a limited number of human resources, which drives up wages. Additionally, the university can impose selection bias on matriculating freshmen who will eventually receive the credential, which helps maintain the reputation of the university's graduates.

If you don't maintain the selectivity of the institution, you end up with what's happening in the mid-tier for-profit colleges, where students take out massive loans for a degree but then it doesn't really improve their employment prospects much. If everybody has a college degree, its financial value is basically 0.
Good luck!
Are there any SMS limitations by geography?
The light(er) weight Rust server looks interesting. We might spin it up in-house and kick the tires. Thanks!
I wouldn't call another 5+ years of growth "right at the twilight". NeXT launched a 68030 box near simultaneously against the SS1 & DS3100. Both had faster follow-ons, goosed by the then-amazing HP PA machines (720/730). They (Sun, DEC, HP) raced each other til the Intel machines caught up. NeXT was never a player, despite Jobs attempt to define himself as the winner in the self-defined "academic workstation" segment.
Thanks for your detailed reply. This really puts things into perspective.
Google, other giants, recommend remote work due to Covid-19
is the notion of second order thinking a formal term in philosophy or logic or something?
https://fs.blog/2016/04/second-order-thinking/
The enthusiasm for shaming in this mail from the thread makes my stomach turn. They seem to be either blissfully unaware or malevolently aware that it would lead to more marginalization, not less: https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists...

"This special exception makes clear who the community considers a bad actor and initially imposes greater obligations on them than anyone else. [....] As in the Persona non Grata Preamble, this special exception serves as a clear statement on the community's view on who is welcome in their community. Additionally, if the bad actor wants to redistribute, they have to distribute the license shaming them."
It wasn't a rumor, it was the KT20 "Minnow". It was a workstation sans display. Given the memory addressing limits there were reasons why it was stillborn.
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short version: only the lower bits of an address are compared at first, because the rest might take a while to resolve
so the cpu can speculate that the rest is gonna match as well and start to work with the data, and then either keep it or throw it away once the rest of the address is known
Only if you equate open source advocacy with political activism. In fact their "about" page states: "Much of OSI’s advocacy takes the form of quiet persuasion rather than public activism", and the whole thing was founded in part because the term "free software" seemed too politically charged to the founders, both of which, BTW, have been ejected.
Ask HN: Why is everyone I talk to in the real world so unperturbed by Covid-19?
It seems like most people I chat with on a day-to-day basis blithely brush off the risks or worry associated with coronavirus. I myself am not the alarmist or prepper type, but what I see in the real world (big metro city with multiple cases confiremed nearby) is starkly different from the attitude I see espoused here and on twitter, which is that we may be in for a black swan event that could get worse before it gets better.

I hear a lot of "it's just the flu...", "it's just the media"... etc.

What accounts for this difference, and who is more in touch with reality? It is the case that I don't work in tech any more, so maybe tech-centric communities err more on the "expect the worst" side. But that begs the question of why?
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> This isn't a profession. It's a volunteer effort.

I would suggest that is a distinction without a (in this context) relevant difference.

Also, you didn't address my other, larger point.
Tough act to follow for Wallmart... The tech industry has a huge advantage here.

But there are jobs where you'd have the possibility to do this in industries that will take some re-arranging to make it work. Legal and financial for instance, call centers (some technical issues), most design and creative work.

The impossible ones are anything involving care, production and logistics. Even retail could in principle be done but it would require a massive shift on the part of the consumer. Going shopping is very much ingrained and retooling that industry for home delivery is neither fast nor simple when done on a massive scale.
I'll be booking a greyhound bus to a far off place with cheap rent and good WiFi...
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> 1Password is also how we handle 2fa in a common/generic way for many sites that require it. This avoids the problem of a user using their cell phone number to get the OTP's and then that person leaves the company

For high level corporate account, just have 2-3 office phones with different phone numbers. Each number is for a different department or level of access. Provide the right number given the nature of the access required (AWS Root account versus Xero accounting software, for example) and then use that as the 2FA. You can even use virtual 2FA for this.

Just a thought.

For personal level access for each employee, provide your employees with second hand, cheap Android phones you can buy for mere pennies, keep them in the office at all times, on charge, on wifi-only. This has the benefit of helping to reuse old hardware as opposed to it ending up on some tip.
> He is fighting against codes of conducts and diversity because he thinks its about normalizing homosexuality

No, he's not. He's fighting against codes of conduct because he sees them as a Leftist attempt to gain control of open source software as an institution and subvert it, in other words, a Leftist power grab. This is not by any means the first such Leftist takeover in history. You can agree or disagree about his reading of what's going on, but either way it has nothing to do with normalizing homosexuality.
> to slow a spreading virus like COVID-19

The naming of this thing is such a disaster, even MIT can't get it right.

- the virus is called SARS-CoV-2 (like HIV)

- the disease it causes is named COVID-19 (like AIDS)

- pretty much everyone calls both the virus and the disease coronavirus
I don’t really feel the same way as GP, but not having static typing (Flow/Typescript) would be a big drawback for me. I would be ok with these pseudo-langs if type checking is still possible.

In the past I used one of Rich Harris’s precious projects (Ractive). I liked it a lot, but since then I’ve written typed JS for a couple years now and I wouldn’t give that up when working on anything substantial.
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He's gotta be assuming the nodes have clear line of sight and fresnel zone. The maximum distance for the link budget in a perfect situation. In practice it probably cuts off at the nearest rise in the ground or depression.

But they're still cool and I still want some for non-hiking applications. With the very low power idle and low cost they could be set up with solar panels in the tops of trees or in similar high height above terrain positions.
It's exactly the opposite. Literally all types of science are political. Science tells you how to optimize towards an objective once you've decided on an objective (that's the scientific method). You need the "friend of science", also known as "Philosophy" and it's worldly implementation, "Politics", to decide what your objective is.

Politics is the art of running a Polis (a city, or in modern times the state). The question of "what is good for the state" is a political one.
> vs the chaos that could entail if they didn't

A campus full of runny noses for a couple weeks? These are overwhelmingly young people of which the vast majority would be perfectly fine.
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I'm on the opposite side - maybe thanks to Docker I got lazy or something but when I don't see docker (or even better - ready to use docker-compose file with whole required stack prepared) then I think I'm like 10 times less eager to give it try.
It also has a similar culture, weather and history.

Not sure if any Scots agree, but it seems right to me at least.
My workplace had a ban on WFH. The virus is forcing them to reconsider that, at least temporarily.
Pretty clearly the deal there is that false claims that a place is meritocratic makes the actual injustices worse.
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More importantly, Mike Nesmith is the producer of one of the great all time punk movies Repo Man. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/
/notfunny. Student homelessness is real, as is student food insecurity.
I guess my only advice is make sure the software keeps to the duty cycle limits of the license free band. And note that different countries may have different regulations on what is allowed on the frequency LoRa uses, if using it is even allowed.
Looks like "Ethical Source Definition" defining "ethical open source" analogous to "Open Source Definition" defining "open source" license characteristics.

https://ethicalsource.dev/definition/
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I'm by no means an expert, but...

Is it a good idea to send a campus of young potential carriers from an emergency zone [0] to the rest of the nation, if not the world? MIT and Harvard may be setting a precedent in the world's largest college town that the status quo is to send thousands of travelers from a disease epicenter to lesser-affected areas. I'm genuinely concerned - not for my health as a student, but for how I might be impacting the health of the geographies I'm returning to. Am I misguided in this?

[0] https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/03/10/coronavirus-latest-ma...
One of the big breakout moments for Linux was when IBM added SMP support. Before then it was never useful for anything "serious" or commercial generally speaking.

Linux was a really nice hobby before then.
There's a good chance Google wouldn't exist without it.
It should be noted that they have not moved lab classes online. For someone in the sciences, much of your classroom time is spent in lab classes. Unfortunately, there isn’t a good way to teach students how to run a gel, or do a titration, or identify minerals, etc. without in-person instruction.

There are students who are graduating this spring and the skills they learn in upper division or capstone lab classes are some of the most important skills they will learn at school. You can’t just cancel the classes (or those students won’t graduate), you can’t do a very good job at all teaching them online... What can you do? We haven’t figured it out here at my institution, and it looks like nobody else has figured it out.
Cool! I'll take a look and see if there are any ideas we can pick up from YOU! I love that so much area is being explored in the JS world right now.
IBM had a commercial years ago, probably intended to be based on RFIDs, but same concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvHK40N87mE
Every report I've read shows the risk factor for young adults is extremely low, and probably no worse than the ordinary flu. Closing down the school for a whole semester seems like an overreaction.
S3 currently[1] costs 2.3c per GB, per month and there are additional costs for various transfer and usage behaviors.

rsync.net pricing is 2.5c per GB, per month with no other charges possible, regardless of usage.

I feel like we're in the ballpark there ...

As a bonus, you can do things like this:

ssh user@rsync.net rclone s3:/some/bucket rsync/home/dir

ssh user@rsync.net rclone gdrive:/blah s3:/some/bucket

... which is detailed here[2].

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

[2] https://www.rsync.net/products/universal.html
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What's the typical age of MIT professors?

What's the typical age of the students parents?

What would happen if a good 5% of them have more than a runny nose, end up in intensive care and there is a shortage of beds?

Go read up for a bit on what is happening in Italy, then check where your country is and advance 4 weeks. See if you still think 'runny noses' is a good analogy.
Aren’t tenant/landlord laws typically set by the state, though-Using your analogy or do I have it backwards? Aside from local zoning laws I don’t quite see the comparison to how a municipality would be able to “call the shots” on something like eviction rules.
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I guess we wait for IBM?
> One of the greatest anatomists, Andreas Vesalius still argued that the clitoris was not a thing. He said he couldn't find it in any healthy woman.

Talk about a self-own.
I’m here for the puns like updog: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...
- purchased a few years ago but a company with a shady privacy/security history

- hard to use, slow, clunky interface.

- desktop app (macos) doesnt work well. small file sharing is cumbersome and extremely limited.

- sync is miserable. just.. miserable. it usually required the receiver to log out and back in at least twice.

try 1password and the differences are immediate and undeniable.
> who knows if few days from now they won't discover there was a carrier on the campus.

And by that time, most of the student body (with who knows how many asymptomatic carriers) will have been widely dispersed.
They would overwhelm the local medical system, making it impossible to care for the extreme cases.
Not again with anecdotal evidence... Could we all please agree that "I know of a guy" is NOT an argument against statistical findings over a group of people?
Groups that don't have a code of conduct (which in my experience increases rather than reduces the amount of jerkdom) get pressurised to add one. Conferences that don't have one attract twitter harassment campaigns. It's not really a free choice.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1540-5
Is SSH speed a real limitation you’ve measured? I was able to easily saturate a 1 Gbps link for days using ZFS send over SSH with an Intel Atom when initializing my remote backups.
When I was 16 or so I made my very first patch to the KDE project. It was really awful code - and I was told to kill myself due to its quality. There are absolutely bullies in FOSS - but I swapped to Gnome and called it a day. I was pretty upset, but a few months later Postfix accepted a patch so I spent 3 years as a mail administrator. My issue here is the lack of transparency - just tell us why he was banned. His essay on social politics seems non-Germaine - it wasn’t aimed at anyone. If he directly insulted harassed or threatened a contributor - absolutely kick him out - but just copy paste the text! It’s a fairly low bar to hit for those given the authority to ban someone from their own creation.
Torvalds has been exceptionally tame by comparison as of late. He's adopted a formal CoC, admitted he is often a real jerk, and is seeking professional counselling. You know, he is acting like an adult in this entire thing.
As far as I know this was a natural consequence of their moderation, not a one-off attempt to edit history.

Anyway, you can read ESR's dodgy message quoted in this post:

http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists....
They're not potential carriers. They are potential future problems and concentrating so many people that are so mobile is currently a very large risk.

Right now the chances of many of them being infected are still relatively low. Give it a few weeks and it is pretty much a certainty.
It's because they're still in the denial stage. The panic stage will follow very shortly. It's just a matter of social contagion.

See also:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/four-thing...
It's about containing the spread to spare risky populations and minimize hospital overload.

Also the bit about being no worse than the flu is not true for any age group.
Since a lot of people are or will be administering exams, I want to put in a plug for the wonderful Gradescope (with which I have no association other than as a former user, and they sent me a t-shirt). I used it in my classes a couple years ago when I was a graduate student. It massively streamlines the process of grading. Relevant to the current outbreak is the ability to easily return graded items to the students through the service. You can even handle regrade requests, should you choose to enable them. They also now seem to have some test-administration capabilities, but I've never used that.

The process for using it goes like this:

1. Upload a blank exam and mark where names and answers are (so, e.g., they'll know where on each exam to expect the student's answer to 2(b)).

2. Scan and upload the finished exams. Most copying machines can handle this pretty easily.

3. Use an OCR-assisted process to match exams to names or student ID numbers. Without ID numbers, this took me under 2 minutes for 40-50 students.

4. As you grade each problem, you make notes and deductions as you go. e.g. "You forgot the +C, -1 point". If you see the same error again, you can use a hotkey to affix the same note and deduction to subsequent exams. You can also grade additively, if you prefer. And you don't have to deal with stacks of paper exams.

5. If you decide to alter a note, or that you were to harsh or lenient on a particular error, the changes are applied to all exams with that mark. This takes a lot of pressure off of your initial grading decisions ("Oh, shit, it looks like getting that was harder than I thought. Should I go through all the exams and lower their deductions?"). The notes support LaTeX math symbols.

6. Once you're finished grading, you don't have to tally and enter the grades. No more worrying about final-grade-altering addition errors. You can export the results as a spreadsheet. You get granular, question-level data on how everyone did. You can publish the results to students. If you choose to accept regrade requests, you can do so without worrying about post-return alterations of answers.

This is all without their upgraded AI-assisted service. It slashed about 75% off of the time I spent on grading and 90% off the stress of grading fairly and consistently. And it gets even better if you have multiple graders with their team service; no more coordinating the passing around of exams! Everyone can work at the same time.

It's an absolute godsend if you have a lot of grading to do. I can't recommend it highly enough.
The switch of FreeBSD's ZFS master being ZoL is still work in progress, and is not the default ZFS in FreeBSD yet. (FreeNAS being FreeBSD + Configuration + Management Software).

A fair number of the ZoL 0.8 features (encryption, allocation classes being two prominent examples) are not available currently for FreeBSD
I'm against partisanship, as stated above.

But this idea of yours that by disagreeing with you, it means you're right, is absurd. If we agreed, would that mean you were wrong?
It is hard to track IBM because they have so much change, but for many years IBM has already been a largely WFH culture. I know they recently tried to change that, but not sure how much of the culture they changed.
Room.sh might be what you are looking for. It does a lot more than whiteboarding and is very easy to use.
Young adults interact with people who are not young adults. Young adults that need not be ill might end up in an ICU unit that an older person with a weaker immune system could have used to their advantage.

As long as there is no vaccine this is going to be a huge exercise in resource allocation.
Off-topic, but once I stumbled upon an open source WiFi tower designed for an engineering thesis, and the use-case was a music festival; comparing to cellphone networks that are deployed with a truck, this was way cheaper and configurable.

https://github.com/servalproject/foss-comms-tower
To me what you write are great arguments for tuition free universities, like the ones in Sweden. It makes society much more equitable and egalitarian. This whole artificial scarcity thing is such a lose-lose for everyone in society.
I never understood all the 80s/90s jokes about not being able to find the clitoris. I mean when you look at a vulva it's right there. You can't miss it. Even if it's small and hooded, it's at the top meeting point of the labia so you still know where it is even if you can't see it for some reason.

Was there some other cultural context to this at the time? Why was it a meme?
I don't know if it's fair to compare MIT to Italy. Italy has a very aging population and MIT is very young and Boston has some of the best healthcare in the country.
Looks like this one: "Ehmke, Coraline Ada"

She has done more than anybody else to cause destructive internal strife in Open Source software projects. Her being on the OSI board is simply appalling. OSI needs to be defunded and ignored if she can not be removed.
So what do we do if this virus festers for another couple of years? We can't shut down society forever.
Yeah, I've been thinking something similar.

In the American context, a successful response would be seen by the uninformed as an overreaction. The administration responsible (federal or state) would be blamed for the economic damage and voted out.

It would take a very strong leader who was willing to act without thought to reelection to really meet the crisis head on. That would be ... rare.
OMG! It's full of fumes! All the times!

That is all i could think about when reading about the hydrocarbons. Imagine having to live in the all permeating STINK of a gas station, or worse (petro)chemical factory.

/me shudders
Tsk, tsk. Replications, Replications, Replications! ;)
> The unclarity is unsettling.

The situation is unsettling. Realistically MIT made the right broad decision here, I think we can all agree on that. Classrooms (most of them) are an inherently remotable environment. Lecture halls and giant shared dormitories and shared meal facilities are just not a safe environment in a pandemic.

They made the right call. Demanding that they do it with perfect bureaucratic finesse is a bit much. Over the coming months, all of us are going to be asked to undergo some hardship, there is no getting away from that. And realistically that hardship not going to be distributed fairly. We all need to do the best we can and help where it's possible.
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