skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But this is literally just a call for civility, recognizing that many people may not want to subject themselves to this kind of toxic atmosphere

The problem here is that "toxic" is something that gets to be defined by those who would use it as a hammer against everyone else. What one person considers to simply be a spirited conversation may seem as a deafeningly aggressive argument to someone else; but such is life!

The free market dictates that products will survive on their merits, and this is triply true when the product itself costs nothing - people use what works. If a particular development style ends up resulting in more contributors and better code, so be it; but there's no guarantee of that whatsoever. Some of the best code in the world has been written by megalomaniacs who would never pass a CoC sniff test.

> Added to this, note that the attack surface for such toxic behavior might be much bigger if you're a minority group.

Maybe, but there's only one group you're allowed to attack in every modern newspaper, and are not allowed to acknowledge positively in any political campaign.
> where the idea is that nobody is kind to anybody and that's how everybody likes it?

Crocker's Rules[0] as CODE_OF_CONDUCT? That's an interesting idea indeed. Especially if you want to actively preempt entryism by the usual faction of CoC-pushers.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20021202223742/http://sl4.org/cr...
JS uses doubles by default, so no. There were times when js rendering engines used Float32Arrays for matrix and vector math because they should be faster since that's what the GPU uses, right? Turned out they were SIGNIFICANTLY slower because any math on CPU side now required casting floats to doubles back and forth.
> Can I use something like rsync.net to
> push my datasets up as a backup

Yes, but depending on the size/value of the dataset, rsync might not be the best option.

Even after recent price reduction (Yay!), and with a hn discount (Yay!) - I still consider rsync.net as a personal backup service a little overkill/expensive past 100 GB or so. And likely you could just handle anything on the order of 1 to 2 tb locally anyway (spare disks).

You technically could use it for 10+tb of data... But uploading and downloading is going to be slow unless you have a real uplink (ie at least 1gbps).

And if you did, unless you need filesystem level Metadata - rsync might be a better option than zfs send/receive (even though zfs is cool).

>, rebuild my server, and then pull them back down into a reorganised/renamed tree of datasets?

Again, if you just need the data back - you might be well served with rsync or restic (both choices should be orthogonal to using rsync).

> Are there compatibility issues between ZFS on Linux and ZFS on FreeNAS that I need to be concerned about?

The world is divided in Oracle and not-Oracle - AFAIK there shouldn't be major differences between those two - that I believe now both follow upstream zfsonlinux.

However - I believe rsync.net still doesn't support zfsonlinux/openzfs encryption (zfsonlinux 0.8+). While locally it's possible to encrypt the disk "under" zfs... Native encryption is tempting.

And you would of course never send anyone data without encrypting it?
> If courses being taught online is an acceptable substitute, why have caps on admission at all?

Most assignments are not scored in an automated manner, and the number of staff is not unlimited.
I think good points can be made in favor of not ignoring the context when (a) the science cannot be evaluated independently (so you have to take it on trust or ditch it), or (b) there are reasons to suspect publication bias (i.e., results are reported/published more if they fit certain biases). So yes for many parts of biology and psychology, but no for maths or much of the hard sciences (at least not the older stuff that has been repro'd many times).

Speaking of "isolation from the past", the linked opinion piece doesn't cite a single reference other than the author's own pop-sci book. An interesting decision for sure.
Qq, are you a scientist? Have you personally observed or have been involved with science as it is actually done?
I don't disagree with the article. But I have a long-standing problem with this post-modern representation of 'objectivity' as binary.

Yes, the tiniest bit of subjectivity makes something nonobjective. Okay, there is absolutely nothing objective. But things can be more objectively true than others. Science is more objective than theology. A spherical Earth more than a flat one.

Treating objectivity as binary, to constantly make the point that nothing is objective, invites the conclusion that everything is equally subjective. Which is nonsense. I'd like to see us move beyond this black and white model. Post-modernism made some good points (e.g. that those who claimed we could get to 100% objectivity were wrong). But being post-post-modern isn't the same as rejecting them all.
At other schools the online offerings for courses can be more expensive than the in-person offerings.

Online doesn't mean that you have unlimited capacity for students. You still need to grade homework and exams, offer virtual "office hours", answer emails.
Why not going full hovercraft? Use the obsolete tire technology only for transition and slow speeds, thereby eliminating all that rubber dust!1!!
Every iPhone since the iPhone 7 supports wide color RGB by default...
Mind reading and mind control technologies are coming
> You can ALWAYS voice your concerns in a productive manner in the "meritocratic" ideal.

You, and perhaps most people believe that, but there's a vocal minority who considers even the concept of meritocracy as an aspirational ideal to be offensive. cf. Github having to throw out their dumb pompous rug: https://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug/
I don't see any reason you can't have an open source project which enforces a strong code of conduct, creates a "safe space" for members sensitive to various things, which doesn't tolerate rudeness, jerks, bullies, etc. Or one with a "show me the code, stick and stones" ethos.

I also don't think that has to be every open source project. Put another way Tumblr and 4chan can exist on the same internet and we can complain about both.

I think what perturbs me is this sense that the people who actually contribute to f/oss are less and less in control and I think this is largely what Raymond was talking about. "Code of conducts" inherently drive power away from the contributors to some sort of moderator enforcing the CoC. More and more I see this almost stereotypical situation of somebody who doesn't contribute to a project demanding adherence to some progressive shibboleth, saying that the project and themselves and people they know have been victimised by violence due to said lack of adherence. Which comes off as mutinous.
Your analysis is suffering from survivorship bias -- Italy still has no idea how many infections they actually have.

South Korea is a better dataset because they have tested so many people.
I’m having difficulty understanding this comment, would you mind explaining it a bit more?
> 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.

The topic under discussion is the OSI's policies and the application thereof. It seems pretty evident to me that the OSI sees that first part (people not enjoying the way they're spoken to or about) as the potential problem: they want people to voluntarily participate in a group, and feel like others in that group can be expected to treat them with dignity and respect even if they disagree.

Furthermore, to your "100% voluntary" part: OSI just revoked their voluntary association with ESR. It cuts both ways.

I don't think it's unreasonable for a large group that is open to the public to publish some pretty standard "don't be a rude and inconsiderate jerk" rules, and to enforce them. As you've pointed out, they can always go fork if they don't like it. Maybe ESR can go start the 'R(ude)OSI' if he thinks that's a productive use of his time, but I don't think most people in general want to have to deal with having textual abuse hurled at them just to participate.

Who knows, maybe I'm wrong and such an effort would be successful! I encourage someone who believes that to try; I'm not against the words, I'm against being rude to people who wish to come and contribute who are shunned or discouraged or driven away as a result of it. Many hands make light work. I'd like to see free software take over the world, and I truly believe that it won't be able to do that if many/most groups creating and promoting it give first-timers a terrible negative experience, which has been the status quo since I was a child.
> but nothing about this message strikes me as someone who's acting in good faith

So you don't know who ESR is, and you're going to act like the man who has put his entire life into this effort as though he's not "acting in good faith". Wow.

If anything, I'd question whether everyone else on the list even knows what 'good faith' is, as they voluntarily proceed to censor themselves.
That's an awfully loaded question. Based on chx's comment and those links, I think it's very unlikely he thinks "stabbed in the back" is an accurate description.
> " "political ratfucking" (whatever that means)"

That might sound like generic senseless profanity, but it's actually a term with specific meaning: "Ratfucking is an American slang term for political sabotage or dirty tricks."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking

Whether or not ratfucking is indeed happening here as ESR asserts is another matter. I mean only to comment on the meaning of the term.
>They're just picking winners that align with their own ideology at this point

Which is why Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn and all of them are actually publishers, akin to the Washington Times or Fox News, and don't (currently) deserve §230 protection.
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Aren't undergraduate ivy league programs more about signaling status than actually becoming educated?
> Real jerks in f/oss are also a real problem. f/oss groups should ABSOLUTELY eject bullies: not for wrongthink, but for bullying. We must be kind.

I'm more goal oriented, it's about getting to the destination, not the adventures we find along the way. If somebody is curing cancer but has a habit of calling everyone an asshole and is a prick in general ... let him. He's curing cancer, don't mess with that.

The same goes for software imho. If you can deliver great software AND always be kind and all that, great. If you have to choose, I'm always choosing the great software. I do agree though that you don't need to make those your public representatives. Insulate them with a layer of people that are more diplomatic.

Also, I believe a lot of this is because it's online, and even people that have been online for decades don't always realize how wildly different other people's backgrounds are and how they might misunderstand something/how their communication style might trigger some traumas.

The fact that the "be kind, be considerate" route gets abused by power grabbing people also doesn't help, because every honest appeal to kindness is hard to tell apart from the beginning of an unfriendly take-over.
The terms are founder friendly, but they are no longer employee friendly. All the value that used to go to employees goes to VCs now.

It's a lot harder to hire good employees when they look around and see that they have a much better chance of an equity payout with RSUs from Google.
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Relative population only becomes important once a significant portion of the population is infected. Until that time you'd expect a roughly exponential increases from the original outbreak.
Not seeing a lot of evidence of a great mind.
Maybe resubmit this post so the link works. I would love this for music festivals. They have some solutions but they are hundreds of dollars. If people in the group could put this on a backpack it would be a game-changer. Music festivals also have a big problem with internet access. If they could put host a few powerful repeaters in the middle with electrical and have 5% of attendees (staff) with these they could probably cover the entire place. Send out lineup changes or emergency notices.
I couldn't say whether that happens anywhere, but I believe that's what "death panels" refers to. I wasn't suggesting it's what currently happens.
thank you for recognizing there was an issue, and thank you for trying to do better
How ironic: A person railing against cancel culture gets cancelled by cancel culture.

Simply disagreeing with politically charged topics gets you a boot from many open source projects.

Many people that claim to want tolerance, actually want nothing less than exuberance for their own causes and have no problem painting people they disagree with as non-human, so they can harass, get them fired from their jobs or positions (canceling), and then finally silence.

This comes right out of the 'rules for radicals' playbook.

If you can't respect my freedom of speech, why should I protect yours?
Which remote server? You would only need the key at the remote server, if you wanted to mount the snapshot?
> The pigeonholing of heritability studies with eugenicist policy

Where does the author do this?
I mean, you'd expect verified data to sell for more than unvetted bulk dumps, yeah?
I think they were answering my question in that this is difference since it is professionals performing triage and not bureaucrats.
> You still need to grade homework and exams, offer virtual "office hours", answer emails.

But all of the above can be done by TAs, and do not need a professor. Professor time is much more limited.
It's basically impossible to quarantine entire cities in a democracy, especially with an election coming up.

I mean, you can, but it's going to cost you so much political capital that you'll be out of the game entirely. And I don't see many politicians willing to put their jobs on the line for it.
I had a bot once, which would tweet a single word from the 300k most used words in German every 15 minutes (there is a corpus for that). The bot even had "Bot" in it's name.

It got striked several times by Twitter because of "hate-speech". Yes, the words were unfiltered - of course. That's language. The longest strike lasted for 5 days. It goes without saying that I disputed every single strike to no avail.

I finally took the bot down.
Agreed. Stories like this keep popping up, because this is something the whole world desperately needs. EEStor was one of the previous claimants to the title, but they flew by night.

After so many disappointments, I'm down to "Let me know when I can buy one at Fry's, until then, I am not holding my breath."
Scroll up, there is links. Read his blog. Build your own opinion. Don't trust what I say.
you may want to re-read it, because your framing is way off

he /admits/ to having been wrong
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Years ago I wrote a bot to correct people's poor grammar (specifically "I could care less"), stayed within the API limits, and clearly labeled the account as a bot. Banned by Twitter within a week. Their policies have always been arbitrary and selective, and this kind of vague language ensures that will continue.
Seems like a lame argument, they are the CDC why can't they simply ask the labs to report back the findings its a global pandemic for goodness sake.
How does a VR headset work?
nostalgia here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
This reminds me of a first year engineering philosophy course I took where the prof spent a good chunk of it trying to tell us there is no such thing as 100% objective research then proceeding to tell us that our grades were 100% objective after people complained about divergence between course averages according to teaching assistants. :'D
A whooping 430 points, posted 3 hours ago, overall favorable comments. I am very confused as to how or why this slipped to page 3 already.
His comments on women along are disqualifying-

> "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."

In my job I regularly have to talk to women. I wouldn't hire a developer who treated half the population differently. That's just one example too.
Where will students go?

1. Students with financial difficulties or out of state students

2. International students
I expect to see this at more and more universities in the US over the next couple of weeks. I have friends who work in the higher education technology space, and they mentioned that many schools are starting to plan for this.
You can call it what it is: a pandemic.
Passionate speech is not allowed in the borg-cube of a culture we're growing.
Ah I see what you're saying. Yes, they are often round trips.

But sometimes they can be from one task to another, especially if both people are going to another task (usually another meeting) in the same building.
It's inefficient, and occludes what the discussion is actually about. As someone not deeply familiar with the discussion, I am no further to understanding what ESD is, as the language used is mostly a string of assertions without proof, and little definitional value. In other words, there were better, more effective ways to answer the question, still completely unfettered by any need to be "PC".

There's expressing yourself fully and accurately, and there's expressing yourself respectfully. It's entirely possible to do both, and that quoted response really didn't do much of either.
> So, is it illegitimate, then, to have a FOSS project with an intentional/cultivated "culture of abuse", where the idea is that nobody is kind to anybody and that's how everybody likes it? Sort of a... "BSDM but we build something along the way" thing?

It's nonviable for anything beyond a small hobby project, for the simple reason that such a culture would make it essentially impossible for anyone to participate in the project as a representative of their employer.
There can be a "be nice" rule in both life and corporate America. Lots of organisations have a "no assholes" rule and this goes double for organisations with a substantial volunteer/not-for-profit ethos as a few unpleasant people who create a lot of drama can drive away a lot of quiet contributors by making their lives unpleasant.

ESR has always been someone who has created drama. Look up the CML2 controversy on the linux kernel mailing list where ESR created so much drama that in the end the kernel devs just gave up on trying to work with him.

It's quite possible that the OSI just decided the juice wasn't worth the squeeze.
> The only downside is that someone has to take notes, which can be hard while walking ...

Perhaps this is a good situation to use something like Voice Memos[0]. This way the scribe can speak the notes and transcribe later.

0 - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206775
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It absolutely is driven by Apple. I've been following this for a while. I actually like having a text based shader format since I do a lot of dynamic shader generation and compilation at runtime, but I don't quite understand why it has to be something entirely different to existing shader languages.
It spills over. He is fighting against codes of conducts and diversity because he thinks its about normalizing homosexuality and he thinks that normalizing homosexuality is the first step towards normalizing pedophilia.
Given the usual university budget and the going rate for overqualified, part-time, and temporary adjuncts, the staff is less limited than one might think.

Remote students and remote adjuncts--what do you need administrators for? Ah, yes, to collect the tuition, attend the luncheons, and issue the credentials.

It would at least put a small dent in the oversupply of Ph.D. holders in some fields.
>Many people that claim to want tolerance, actually want nothing less than exuberance for their own causes

This is absolutely brilliant
And if that proves out to be problematic for companies (markets aren't instantly efficient, it takes time for information to be incorporated), I think we'll see terms shift to provide portfolio companies a competitive advantage in hiring
he happens to be an author/co-author of all of those papers ;)
MIT isn't ivy league and probably the least 'about signaling' school in the US...
A university education is not a SaaS product.

We are getting to the point where lectures should be mandated to be recorded and put into the public domain, and the University's value proposition in admission, tuition, and residence should be the everything else involved which could raise the focus away from re-doing the same lectures over and over.
> Why the hell do you think the stock market tanked into recession territory? They're already calling it "Black Monday" in the news.

There was a small matter of oil prices dipping as a result of negotiations breaking down between Saudi Arabia and Russia, which may have played a minor role in Monday’s events.

I don’t disagree with your general sentiment, but there was more to the events on Monday than a virus.
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That's mainly because it has been set up, it's been debugged and it works predictably.

The relevant policy there is "If it works, don't fix it."

And that's apart from the fact that updating the OS would cost extra money that probably wouldn't be recovered during the lifetime of the machine.
This seems like its likely to have dramatically more serious consequences for the less privileged students.

Lots of people don’t have a place other than school they can live & be successful.
I totally meant to do that.

Also, do you always count characters in comments, or just this once?
Really happy to hear you are working on it. FWIW your products are so fantastic I'm definitely more critical than I would be if that wasn't the case. I hold 1Password to a super high standard.

I'll give it a spin again too as it's been a while since I tried it last and check out the forums!
> "Code of conducts" inherently drive power away from the contributors to some sort of moderator enforcing the CoC.

Could we have both? e.g. CoC moderators elected by contributors from the ranks of contributors?
I appreciate the focus. React might not be everyone’s choice but what the JS world is missing is super tight integration between multiple tools. We forgot everything Rails taught us. People who want to pick their own technologies already have the ability to do so today, what’s missing is one off-the-shelf convention-over-configuration solution to be the Rails of JavaScript.

Good luck to you guys.
That's still a voluntary choice made by those individuals. If the group doesn't want to follow the suggestion of an outsider they don't have to do that.
The idea that the number of employers who might pressure their employees into not using legally-enshrined sick leave could be comparable to the number of employers who, through the goodness of their hearts, currently offer sick leave to their low-wage employees in the absence of a requirement to do so doesn't hold water. Furthermore, the (quite real) threat that employers will attempt to violate the spirit of a worker protection law should not be justification for society to not implement such laws. History clearly shows us that the goal of improving the lives of American citizens cannot rely upon charitable behavior from corporations.

I agree that neither case may be black or white; however, one is dark, dark gray and the other is eggshell.