skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read RMS's article articulating what he called "kind communication". It was philosophically consistent with what he has been espousing for years -- free software, the concern for making sure that people have access to software. He expressed UI design philosophies along those lines, which I interpret as making sure people who were otherwise disadvantaged could still access the same powerful tools people with better devices can access.

Who is going to advocate for that now?

I don't think telling the truth, discussing divisive issues, and courtesy are mutually exclusive.

I don't think the people outraged over Stallman's comments are wrong. There are some issues that we, as a society, have not really figured out. A lot of this stuff have been a long time (centuries?) in coming. However, I don't think the rampage of the outrage machine is the way to go either. At some point, we're going to have to pick up the pieces.
https://medium.com/unbabel/the-need-for-speed-experimenting-...

> It’s that is not enough to just know some new cool technology, nod along and go about your day with your assumptions unchallenged. You need to find out more, test it out, have a grasp before committing to it, and, if you’re lucky, learn a thing or two in the process.
a multiyear process with repeated warnings in email and in person is very hard to describe as stabbing anyone in the back
I wanted to use this tool for backing up my laptop to my NAS, however it only allows SSH to be used for data transfer, which is a real bottleneck for speed. It basically means you can only transfer as fast as one core can decrypt or encrypt data on either end of the pipe.

I ended up using https://github.com/oetiker/znapzend instead, because it can use mbuffer for the actual data transfer, which is much faster.
> Reality is there's effectively no containing it at this point

Strong measures will still have an effect on the epidemic curve. Cancel the fucking St. Patrick's Day parade in Chicago, as an example.
IMO you summed it up very well there.
> This is not as simple as sitting on the bench for a time and then you are back and yay.

Neither are parole hearings. I wouldn't expect them to let you rejoin after a predetermined amount of time, but I would expect them to periodically reconsider the ban given the latest up to date evidence about your personality/character. If you came to understand the error in your ways and made demonstrable moves to improve the way you conduct yourself (it sounds like you have), surely that should be considered.
Isn't it way worse to make everyone travel? If any of the students had contracted the virus wouldn't it be better to keep it contained at the University rather than bringing it to where they're from?
Yeah, that sounds horribly obnoxious. Glad it was banned.
Replies are considered a spammy way of getting attention.

This wasn't Twitter arbitrarily banning you, but people repeatedly reporting your tweets. The option is right there, and aptly called "Uses the reply function to spam".
Meanwhile, as a correlation of their caprice, my @fiveobot is still going strong after tweeting hourly for going-on-three years.
> unprofessional

This isn't a profession. It's a volunteer effort. ESR has spent enough time talking about this now that expecting every single email he writes to include a total re-encapsulation of the entire effort is ridiculous. Of course, this is why arguing with these sorts of people is such a pain; they forget everything you've ever said, and any point ever admitted-to is forgotten the next day like as though no such admission had ever been made.
I disagree: I've known some poorer folks, who swear by Reiki, which if I understand correctly is massage (proven in studies to accelerate certain types of healing) and maybe some herbal rubs. I and my rich coworkers, with good insurance, go to professional physical therapists and get real, proven Medicine, which mainly consists of massage and some prescription topicals.

I don't need either the placebo effect, nor mystical energy to explain Reiki. Ditto for most alternative medicines I've seen friends swear by.
Yeah, the only major conservative cable outlet. Against CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, NPR...Not to mention almost every major web source.

People know full well that Fox is part of the MSM, but regardless of which way you lean, there's no question that the deck is stacked against conservative viewpoints.
Not every contribution, even if useful, is worth the price the contributor demands.

The way to stop this is to just disregard the contributions of those who’s asking price is everyone else’s slavish obedience to their standards of conduct.
Hell, even a private email chain (i.e. off-list) would be better than nothing.
Let's look at your options for local development with Kubernetes
Last empty line is skipped by UI.
I'm afraid I feel my level of sympathy would be 100% correlated with how mandatory the heels are for your friend :-/

On aside, I'm also (genuinely, not snarkily) curious to understand the "Naturally" part in front of "wearing high heels". Don't get me wrong - I personally think they're a fabulously attractive if completely impractical article of clothing, but it feels like in many places in the world they are far from the norm/regular/Natural assumption.
Strongly agreed.

ESR talked up his role and theories about how open source worked, but his writing was the main thing that he contributed. His attempts at contributing actual code did not have nearly the same impact. Nor has his description of how open source worked actually had the same impact.

Even the OSI definition owes more to Ian Murdock (the "ian" in "debian") than it does to ESR.

However if RMS and Brian Fox had not single-handedly set about reimplementing the Unix toolsystem back in the mid-1980s, the world would today be different.

As much as RMS annoyed people by saying that Linux should be called GNU/Linux, he had a point. Linus contributed the kernel, but most of what people called Linux at the time was actually written by the FSF.
there are some (non-optimal) estimates in the paper, tl;dr it's not great ;)

some more technical info here https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insigh...
Uh, what's wrong with listing if you have a mental illness? To me, its no different than listing any physical illness you're a survivor of.
You haven't proved anything other than the fact that you know exactly what I meant, and are using tactical nihilism to pretend that a tiny fraction of the population not having their every whim catered to is an issue the rest of us should care about.
Ready for changes with Hexagonal Architecture
I suffered from treatment-resistant depression for over ten years. In my case, time definitely did not heal, and psych meds that were tried did not help significantly. Felt like everyone had gotten used to my depression and did not take it seriously. Was convinced that I had "terminal" depression. Until at a low point, when visiting a new doctor (non-psych) for a routine check-up, the doctor who I'd never met before told me that I seemed so low that she wasn't comfortable sending me home alone and sent me to the emergency room. At that point I started intensive therapy, learned DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) skills, and was started on meds that actually did help. I'm now proud and happy to say that I've been largely free of depression for the 5 years since then. Sure there are low times, but coping skills and closely managing meds have helped greatly.

Mostly here to say: If you're depressed to the point where you're seriously thinking about killing yourself, you have a life-threatening illness. IMO, it should be treated as such.

Some of the contents of this article basically amount to DBT skills (i.e. "Get out of bed even if you don't want to") so I recommend looking into those if these types of suggestions sound helpful to you. But suggesting that somebody who is suffering should binge watch TV to wait it out seems unhelpful and counterproductive to me. Take it seriously, and seek help if you need. Things can get better.
The unclarity is unsettling. I imagine many will want to fly back to their parents home but may be barred from doing so.

Was evicting a large populace a good idea? Aren't there other options?
This is not misinformation. The methods and procedures for appealing are not clear yet (we leave in seven days!) and there are students who are moving into local houses with friends. If you think MIT won't "just toss students to the street" you haven't been paying attention to the closures of Bexley Hall, Senior House, and the upcoming closure of Eastgate (which was only recently amended to be slightly better).

The source is that I am currently here and it is unfolding before my eyes and in my community.
Oh god, I didn't even think about how someone with Corona is going to go from spending all day around young, healthy individuals to their aging parents.
Irresponsible mostly.
Bahrain has already said it plans to hold their Grand Prix in an empty grandstand.

I do think the host tracks would prefer to have a full Grand Stand, due to ticket sales, but I'm not sure how much it would affect F1 as a whole.

Sadly, there seems to be a sense of invincibility almost towards the virus in Western Countries until all of a sudden it arrives and you are dealing with hundreds or thousands of cases.
> Race (the social construct) is a proxy which only loosely correlates with genetic history.

The correlation is not loose -- it is extremely tight.

For example, take this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S153561081...

> To avoid confusion, in this manuscript, we categorize genetic ancestry as EA, AA, EAA, and NA, and self-identified race from TCGA as White, Black, Asian, and American Indians, and Alaska Natives. For patients with race information in TCGA, we observed that 95.6% of categorizations based on the k-NN algorithm following principal-component analysis (PCA) were consistent with race, suggesting that race and genetic ancestry identified by our approach appear to be highly correlated across TCGA patients.

Or this much bigger one: https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-...

> Among nearly 202,000 individuals with SIRE [self-identified race/ethnicity], 1,079 (0.53%) had GIA [genetically-inferred ancestry] strongly indicating a different racial/ethnic group.

These aren't two loosely correlated concepts; they're one and the same.
What frequency band are you using? ISM is the only one that permits store-and-forward / automatic operation, as the gotenna people found.

You say a few miles per node - I am having trouble seeing how that's possible without elevating all the nodes
Yea, but why.

The real problem is when someone did a change, it happen https://i.imgur.com/LwoeKYk.png and I could think, "oh a newline is missing"
The Motorola relationship is how Jobs got a decent price on the 68030/56001 bundle. It was intended as a sort of mutual offset against the coming RISC processors known to be the competition.
NO

Perhaps for some, but everyone I knew while I was an Ivy undergrad was doing their level best to take advantage of the benefits of that amazing environment of smart, educated people, both the profs, the visiting speakers, and the other students. Since then, it has been what I've learned, not what signaling I could do that has helped me most (tho I'm not the most social person, so YMV).

One thing I really learned there (among other places), is that it really pays to learn from the best -- you have to go through a learning process, and best to learn it once going directly to the top level, vs. a watered-down version and then re-learning. (of course, you can't instantly jump to the top level, but just getting the clues form those who work at the top levels as you work your way up the curve is a huge benefit).
That’s an awesome project. I was interested in LoRa for the same reason. I’m an iOS dev and paraglider myself so I can help you with the iOS app.
Let’s chat
Its not about the virus, its about the liability. Everyone is looking out for them self here.
OK, please show me a politician in a major political party seriously advocating on behalf of the group you know I am referring to in the last two decades. Even the Idiot in Chief won't put a name to it.

> Critically engage with content on mainstream news and the lenses through which they cast minorities through.

I'm not in favour of this. But when the group I didn't mention becomes a minority, I wonder whether anyone will have the same considerations for them as they've had for everyone else.

(I won't downvote you, I want the argument. I've upvoted you. If you find it toxic, of course, you're welcome to go have a different conversation elsewhere, just like anyone on an open source project is welcome to move the fuck on with their life instead of moralizing at others).
Microsoft has about 150k employees and recommended all work from home if they can. Google is around 100k. I don't know who's bigger than Microsoft that also did this.
> Shouldn't science always, without any exception, be viewed in isolation from the past and politics?

What is so special about politics that science must ignore it?
It probably did that even if you wrote a comment saying something like:

"I could not care less" is a malapropism we should strive to avoid.
Certainly. I wouldn't expect a big, open-membership FOSS project to "get away with" being abusive in a non-consensual way. That isn't what BDSM is—which I had hoped was carrying some of the weight in explaining what exactly I meant here, by making you picture what an actually-analogous-to-BSDM software community would be like.

But my question still stands. Let me be more precise with it. Is Code-of-Conduct-space actually wide in practice, or is it narrow? Is there really only one societally-acceptable way to run an open-membership out-in-public software project, with the differences coming down only to the fine details; or is it actually possible to do something very different, e.g. having a CoC containing "We like to call each-other names here. Only join if you're into that."?

Would a project that claims different limits than the ones of wider society, be tenable? Or would it, and every other project attempting such a thing, be boycotted, simply for its members being weird and liking things people don't normally like (and therefore making it squicky to contribute to the software if you don't like what they're doing, which must therefore be a moral failing on their part)?
As someone who has made GPT-2-based Twitter bots, I think the reasonable compromise to the arbitrary app approval process is to allow limited bot access (tweeting only, no replies) through the API without requiring app approval. That would cover the majority of genuine fun bot use cases.
CDC blocking testing, refused to use existing tests developed outside the us. Feels like who ever they contracted to develop a test didn't deliver.
Unfortunately messagepack also forces IEEE754 standard for floating point numbers.
That means it is useless for things like money or large/arbitrary precision numbers.

In JSON a number-type value has to be parsed like in javascript, so IEEE754 double.

for example:

{"number": 0.1}

in reality it is parsed as:

{"number": 0.100000000000000005551115123126}

Solely deserialization followed by serialization might introduce a change in serialized value.

Because of problems with IEEE754 in all of our api we use only floats as strings, like {"number": "0.1"}.
For us enforced IEEE754/double format for floating point numbers renders number type near useless.
Why would a stock market tank because of low fuel price?
But lactose-tolerance is also found non-contiguously in the world, and you'll have a real hard time finding discrete "groups" defined by skin melanin rather than a spectrum. Genetic lactose tolerance exists; genetic contributions to skin color exist; these are facts---but your interpretation of them is interpretation, and that you can't see it as such is sort of the author's point.
It would be nice if they had thought about it enough to offer some sort of concrete solution. I can only imagine how stressful and infuriating the situation MIT is imposing on its students must be for many of them.
You want to know what is going to happen? They will party all night long.
I wouldn't say such a thing, I believe.

But I think if I was in charge and I had to police behaviour a warning would be my first reaction, rather than an immediate ban.

I mean, aren't we supposed to tell people when they're wrong first, and only resort to harsher means later?
Then in that case, the employees aren't actually providing value to be worth the favorable terms in term sheets and aren't providing a real competitive edge and so aren't worth negotiating better terms for. I don't think that's the case, and if employees provide a real competitive advantage, then companies will need to be able to attract them to survive. I don't see a world where in the long run (and I admit that could be decades - it took that long for terms to become founder friendly) employees don't get more power if they actually bring value. All it takes is a few years of wework style Fiasco's where the founder walks away with a huge payday and workers get screwed before workers start negotiating harder, and founders that can oblige would be in a better position. And frankly, if that ends up not mattering for company success, then the employees clearly aren't worth getting employee friendly terms. I don't think that's the case though.
Cc @dang / moderators to update?
AIUI, the point of codes of conduct (when used in good faith) are basically like FAQs or What Wikipedia Is Not[1] in that they're social bludgeons to avoid having the same fucking discussion with stubborn idiots, where they do this[2] to cause tedious repetitive arguments of how the project should be run.

A code of conduct, AIUI, has two main effects:

1. You have written, formalised proof you can link to that e.g. you're expected to use XYZ pronouns - no tedious offtopic argument that drives people away.
2. If there is a dispute then there's a formal method of bringing up the argument - a feature request or BG report on the CoC. Or more practically, when writing the thing in the first place.

And on the subject of whether it's warranted, this article[3].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_...

[2] https://xkcd.com/1277/

[3]https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-...
Yup. It’s also pretty obvious that eugenics would work since it works just fine across plenty of other species (see dogs, cows, chickens, pigs, etc.).

This article is the identity politics monstrosity coming to take more control.
indeed there is a paywall.
> Tone-policing, cancel culture, and identity politics are a real problem though

The tyranny of structurelessness[0] strikes again.

All of the above are symptomatic (though sometimes known by different names) of movements whose members disclaim official, understood hierarchies of governance. Members who seem to repeatedly forget, century after century, that power abhors a vacuum, and end up forming increasingly concentric, cryptic, personality-driven, and paranoid structures of influence because whatever the movement's stated objectives may be, someone still has to do the often mundane networking chores necessary to maintain group cohesion.

These individuals then become natural nucleation sites for forms of power that have no direct relationship with the acknowledged objectives of the group.

Such power expressed through the arbitrary control of prevailing group narrative language (tone policing), gatekeeping of influence (cancel culture), and authority over defining the many subjective unspoken rules by which status is acquired and asserted within or with respect to the group (identity politics being an instance of this class that that is inherited by all groups with a degree of internal diversity sufficient to build multiple coalitions behind).

[0] https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Why add special support for URIs and not any other types that can be easily represented as strings e.g. UUID or ISBN
1:30PST and 1:30PDT bijectively map to distinct UTC timestamps.
I don't know. Generally, "it worked out great the past two decades" is, to me, a good indicator that it's going to work out in the future, too. It might not be nice and you might not want to stand in the line of fire, but it's going to be consistent, and if you like what you saw until now, consistency is what you want. Who knows where Linux will go without Linus. Maybe Google will push DRM into the kernel and in five years you can't run adblock any more on a modern Kernel (yes, I'm being hyperbolic).

What I do like about the "there's no place for niceness here" is one thing over all: if you can make it there, you can take the heat. And if you're in a position of responsibility, that's really something that is extremely important. It sorts out the people that can't stand the heat, and that's ugly and hard on those people, but it's good for the project, because you can't have them only experience the heat for the first time when they are in power and Amazon leans on them with their billion dollar law team and the promise of a cushy office job.

I understand the idea of "this madness and chaos got us this far, but we'll have to grow up and start doing it the way the people do it that we didn't like when we started it, it's just too big and too important". It's very similar to what happened in the crypto scene when a bunch of guys did some cool stuff and then they realize that their little project now is worth more than many countries' GDP, that's probably a sobering talk.

I don't know that it's necessarily a good idea, though. So far, benevolent dictators have worked out great, even if some of them ruled with a sharp tongue and an iron fist. Whether the alternative will work as well remains to be seen.
"Arrival." In a realistic world, if an alien ship did arrive on earth, what would happen if we tried to communicate with it?
Is it possible to quantify how much "active" vs "passive" money/capital there is?
The "secret key" is of sufficient length to not to be able to qualify as "something you know". It's either a quite lengthy string you have to type in, or a QR code.
This kicking students out of dorms by MIT is insane! They are a being a terrible landlord. How is having thousands of students packing up their stuff better than them just staying put? Won't this make passing on the virus easier?

Those dorms are going to be sitting empty after the students move out. Seriously, what is the logic behind this mess?
it's fairly easy (with the available publications) once you have the prerequisites: a compromised operating system

which is of course exactly what sgx is supposed to defend against, but at the same time that kind of access is a pretty big problem on its own
And so it happened. I reached out when I was ready (I linked that blog post too, it's the last one) and they agreed after a few rounds of discussion.
I glanced at the OSI page. I found someone who overtly stated opposition to core FLOSS principals:

>"Giving everyone freedom means giving evil people freedom, too." (OSD FAQ)
It doesn't have to be like this.

It's time to stop bad actors from using our work in unethical ways. It's time to give open source developers around the world the tools they need to exercise their ethical responsibilities as engineers and members of human society. It's time for us to stop shirking our ethical obligations, and take responsibility for the use of our work.

From:

https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI+Board+of+Directors/...

Also:

https://mobile.twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/12294568573176...

(Edited to include her position in her own words)
Actually, I think it's likely going to be seen as an overreaction in hindsight by the general public (even though it may not be).

If these actions are successful in curbing the virus' spread, most people won't appreciate how bad things could have really gotten.