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> ideas rather than the person

The CoC people will not like that any better.

Suppose you write a mailing list post which absolutely names no names, but only presents expressions of specific ideas, and then calls those ideas "toxic" and "loony", with justifications and all. That will still be equally offensive. It will be still be interpreted as an attack on the identifiable person or group behind those ideas, even though they have not been named.
It makes me sad that people are so sensitive that reading a message like the one ESR wrote drives them away from participating in projects and communities that otherwise would interest them. At least this seems to be the narrative of the "PC supporters" here.

The world is full of assholes. I think it's better to get used to it than to shelter yourself, try to make every space safe or withdraw from interacting with other people.

I know I'm biased though. I am pretty thick-skinned so it's hard to see it from the other perspective.
Can the headline be improved? I opened it as the title gives no impression of being temporary or linked to COVID-19.
It sounds like that comment was implying the burden of proof is on you to justify that chx was "stabbed in the back" when from the sounds of it, even chx disagrees with that characterisation.
I'm at Cornell and the admin just announced online learning for all undergraduates for the rest of semester.
For me, the biggest downside to Svelte is the lack of TypeScript support. This is a massive deal-breaker for myself as well as many other developers. I am also not a fan of the Moustache/Handlebars inspired templating, it feels outdated in the face of enhancing standard HTML or going in the direction of something more extreme like JSX.

I think Svelte is refreshing, but I would not be comfortable using it on a large-scale web application just yet given the downsides, particularly an enterprise LOB application with many moving pieces. This is why frameworks like Angular, Ember and Aurelia on the front-end lend themselves better to the enterprise and React and other more component-based libraries do not.

In terms of community size, I don't think that matters in 2020. You don't need a big community if you have something straightforward and easy to work with. Great read.
Weird to say post modernism. Post modernism started as post structuralism, which is all about critiques of false binaries...
Unlike Saini, Carl is a scientists who publishes science, while Saini is a journalist who published pseudoscientific drivel designed to push her agenda, which she blatantly admits in her Nature piece above.

Real scientists like Carl, or, say, David Reich, recognize her garbage for what it is. She interviews him for her book, and is shocked to learn that the super star Harvard geneticist doesn’t share her absurd positions on biological origins of race, or lack thereof. Saini belongs to a group which in turn Reich calls out in his book for obfuscating, rather than illuminating the issue of the biological origin of correlations between ancestry and phenotypic traits different than the melanin levels.

The best example is how Saini in her book completely uncritically and unironically uses Lewontin’s 1972 argument that there can be no significant differences between populations, because majority of variance is within group and not between groups. Bringing this up and not even discussing obvious counterarguments shows that it’s not science that’s being done, but rather agenda pushing. This is of course par for the course, as Lewontin himself was also quite open about the fact that for him, science is only a tool to push his view on how society should be run, and if science disagrees, so much worse for science.
There is a small case of hobby or identity businesses - farming is a common case of the latter being having a small scale farm or an author.

They exist but by economic output they aren't players of significance.
This is a weird rejoinder to make in a thread about ESR, who was one of the loudest voices arguing for corporate-friendly language ("open-source" not "free software") and licenses (permissive, not copyleft).
Having used Svelte for a couple of projects [1][2], I love it. Compared to my day job working in react/redux, it is much simpler, and feels like it has far less boilerplate.

There are certainly a few rough edges, but it's all related to the immaturity of the language. Specifically, I had a hard time understanding transitions and it wasn't at all obvious how to integrate it with D3. Hopefully as it grows we will see improved docs and examples.

Also, I'm holding out for more mainstream TypeScript support. At that point, it would be hard to convince me to use anything else.

[1] http://musetree.stevenwaterman.uk

[2] http://optimisation.stevenwaterman.uk + https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/02/17/minesweeper-optimisat...
That assumes a monolithic design style, I think.

There are a lot of projects that are factored into small pieces with separate maintainership, where the project as a whole—or its "core"—might be corporate-sponsored; yet individual parts/plugins/connectors—including fairly-critical ones!—might turn out to be one person's hobby-project.

How many maintainers do you think the average Kafka connector has? The average Postgres extension? The average Redis or Nginx module? Etc.

These ecosystem components move the project-as-a-whole forward, and yet they don't necessarily need to be as "corporate" as the project-as-a-whole does to accomplish that. Even though, in the end, a corporation might use one of them, it won't really matter as long as nobody sees them doing so. (If they ever need to patch the un-corporate extension, though, they'll probably fork the thing and flense out all references to the original. I've seen that happen a lot, and done it a few times myself.)
Society is very diverse, it's not that realistic to change society such that you stamp out the ideas you disagree with, it's much more feasible and effective to use the power you have within your own community to stand up to ideas you disagree with.
Yes and no. It's been 10 years since I graduated, but I doubt much has changed. The curriculum is rigorous, the students are smart, and people are serious about learning. But nevertheless, going to MIT does signal something much stronger than the vast majority of other schools, and MIT students are highly aware of that, as is the institution itself.
I don't mean to dispute that ESR may be a jerk, but I'd ask you to consider what his position is:

> It's less bad that people sometimes got their feelings hurt than it is to institutionalize a means by which dissenting opinions are crushed under the rubric of “not nice”.

His point, as I take it, is that a "cancel culture" is antithetical to an open culture. I agree. Excluding someone due to tone, without warning or clear explanation of the violation, especially when it appears the content is a contested opinion, is bigoted censorship.

To steal the Paine quote ESR himself used, "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

The liberty to use strong rhetoric[0] in defense of ideas is what I see under attack by banning ESR from these discussions.

[0]: To my reading, the most inflammatory remarks he said on the mailing list are:

> With whatever moral authority I still have here, I say to all advocates of soi-disant "ethical" licensing not just "No" but "To hell with you and the horse you rode in on."

in the opening email for that thread and in his penultimate email:

> 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.

Compared to a typical rant from Torvalds this is pretty tame debate-speak.
ESR is not only an ultra-libertarian, he’s also a vile scumbag with a considerably inflated ego.
ESR probably wasn't personally needed. RMS may have been.

Either way, to your statement about "the movement", I think it's important to keep in mind that a lot of what passes for hacker culture today is quite different from where those two hail from. How much overlap is there between the Tao of Programming and modern web development, for example?

Whether that's good, bad, or just a value-neutral observation is pretty much up to the beholder.
efabless becomes more and more relevant every day.
Out of curiosity, why not have another user account on the computer? Windows is pretty simple to move between user accounts as is Linux and, although I haven't use macOS recently enough to comment, it was pretty easy the last time I did.

I'm sure our use cases are different but I'd like to understand yours better.
I, too, love cbor. https://github.com/RantyDave/cppbor
this is to protect the health care system and all of the residents of the region, by reducing the density of a very large very dense, externally densely connected and high travel community in advance of a serious epidemic that may (likely will) require more intensive care beds than the region has to provide.
The letter explicitly calls out that undergrads may request an exemption so that they can stay on campus.

- International students who have concerns that they would not be allowed to return to MIT due to visa issues.
- International students who will have difficulty returning to their home country if it has been hard-hit by COVID-19.
- Students who do not have a home to go to, or for whom going home would be unsafe given the circumstances of their home country or homelife.

(just cutting down the dorm population by 90% will have a huge effect at slowing the disease, so I imagine there'll be plenty of room to give exemptions for students without safe/stable homes to return to)
Indeed.

Anyone who has worked with ROCm knows that its... well... rough around the edges. But there's something to be said about "documentation is code", I can pull up Clang and straight up see the parser for ROCm -> AMD GPU compiler, as well as pull up the AMD Vega ISA document (https://developer.amd.com/wp-content/resources/Vega_Shader_I...) and learn the assembly language.

ROCm is rough around the edges, but it is documented and open source. If all else fails, I can write in assembly and get what I need done.

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With that being said, NVidia's CUDA is somewhat open too, since their CUDA -> PTX compiler stuff is also in clang, and PTX is also very well documented.

I guess people are liking AMD's other open-source parts of ROCm. In particular, ROCm getting upstreamed to the Linux kernel proper for better support.

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Based on how ROCm has evolved in the past year, they've become more focused. They've cut back on some features (I did like HCC / C++Amp... RIP), and refocused their efforts on what seems to matter.

NVidia CUDA continues to march forward of course, but there's clearly a need for a 2nd player, at very least to compete against the sore-spots of NVidia licensing issues and hardware costs.
Flights may be reimbursed to go home for low-income students, but not all students have a safe home to go back to. A common issue could be homophobia or transphobia. Some students are also highly reliant on on-campus jobs for income that makes gives them a living wage. This whiplash relocation may make finding new sources of income really hard for certain geographies/students.

The list of complications just goes on... and let it be known that there are still some classes that haven't canceled exams or other large milestones through this Friday.
Thanks - I didn't know that. I actually find his message less offensive now.

I stand by my assessment it's not classy language though.
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?

The thing about this hypothetical is that it's wildly different from what Linus Torvald mailing list abuse winds up being. The approach is "we have a culture of anything goes, not because anyone likes abuse, but it's best way to get things done, and because most competent people do things that way, starting with Linus himself, who's clearly ultra-competent".

Essentially, while there might be some similarities to each, the abuse in open source culture is far more similar to cult abuse than BDSM activity. In cult-style abuse a person entering a project would confronted by escalating abuse and they either flee or accept and begin to normalize it whereas in BDSM, a person is given a description of what they're getting into from the start (though shading towards other "styles" is a hazard here too, of course).

Thing is there are a spectrum of approaches on the Internet but with the Internet no longer young, it's understandable people are concerned about where various styles end up. I have a friend who frequents 4Chan and says they get a lot out of the anything goes styles - "you just have to be willing to accept being called a fag and not taking any of it seriously". The problem is it's known that a substantiale-enough-to-dangerous group of people take the abuse as exactly that point and rather than seeing at restricting it naming calling in forums, live stream mass murder (say, they guy in Australia). This takes people a little aback.

BDSM irl has a lot of controls to prevent people from taking it "seriously", the point isn't to have some who want to torture in a no-limits fashion. If you could have some equivalent way to filter out people who can't separate play from reality, that would be great but I haven't the more abusive nooks of the Internet being very good at that.
> would make it essentially impossible for anyone to participate in the project as a representative of their employer.

Freedom to fork is a thing. Start a CoC-friendly fork of the project, for the benefit of those who require this as a condition of participation; but stipulate that both forks will freely share code between one another. (Meaning, no PNG-like clause whatsoever. This ensures that the choice between the "nice, CoC" and "sticks and stones" project leadership styles is kept free and open, with nobody being forced into one choice or the other. This of course is a compelling reason to actively reinforce the status quo of Persona-Non-Grata clauses in a copyright license being regarded as incompatible with the OSD or any other definition of FLOSS.)
They really try to decommoditize themselves to varying degrees of success. People care about Coke vs Pepsi. Very few care about gasoline or heating oil.
Shop two Walmarts in the same city, may times you'll find the same products with different prices on 'less common' items between the stores.
There are probably only a handful of MIT undergrads that are actually underprivileged per year (its unlikely enough with a middle class upbringing). I doubt this will be much of an issue, at least as much of an issue as it would be if my alma mater did this. They'll be fine.
Gonna suck for foreign undergrads, or anyone who doesn't have a "home" to return to. I think student loans or similar would pay/contribute to dorm living and eating, but living out on the economy might not. ?
Would be funny but most of those things are already on AutoML Tables, including the carbon offset

https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables
I think the idea is you leave stuff in your dorm room that you don't need right away, but yeah. Wow.

(btw some of the MIT dorms have storage space in the basement)
Kind of missing some historical context here:

* Has MIT ever suspended a semester before?

* Have they ever run a shortened or extra class year? I seem to remember something unusual happened during WW2?
Yeah, I should have said "trades there"; I didn't mean literally keeping a cash balance. I wouldn't worry about losing cash or shares, but about losing the ability to trade during important market events. SIPC isn't going to help you if you were unable to trade.
Not saying this as an defense to your observation, but it's possible that they just don't have the capacity to manage that information, given the disparate nature of our health care system. Others have pointed out that the entire pandemic response org chain was fired a while back under the premise of cost savings.

Communicating that information back in a secure, consistent, and reliable way requires a "system" of some kind. It could be a secure website or even a phone war room ready to go and staffed with operators waiting for the test reports.

If such a system was available, you'd think they'd use it in heartbeat, which kind of implies it doesn't exist.

And it's not like systems of this sort - or more even more complex - don't exist. When my kids were born, we donated the umbilical cord blood to a stem cell bank. The organization sent me special bar-coded packaging with a refrigerated pack to be overnight posted back to them.
"When science is viewed in isolation from the past and politics, it’s easier for those with bad intentions to revive dangerous and discredited ideas."

Turns out the ideas are revived anyway. Humanitys vaccacination of horrible memories fails after 3 generations, no matter what measures are taken to keep it alive.

Then when this happens, you are left standing there defending civilization, with sloppy dogma and in desperatly dependant on those who can seemingly "restore" civil society and peace by mass-bribery aka surplus distribution.

If those years would have been used to progress instead, poking into the complexity the no-mans-land between "dangerous ideas" one would at least still have scientific credit to ones defense.

I for years tryied to discuss with both sides the idea that "mental" health problems, are actually evolutionary adaptions to situations occuring in the cycle of strife, ancient society spend most of its time in.

Most discussions ended in "racist" shouts from left (cause this idea suggests that specialization can accumulate within a society if it is stuck in cyclic history- and a specialization wants to keep its optimal environment).

And pure hatred by the right wing for the atrocious suggestion that they might actually be nothing special at all (just a relatively human universal warrior caste brought forth by epi-genetic stress) and theire protest are mainly against effects (refugees, civil war, etc.) caused by themselves and there propagation of there very own ideal environment.

If we could stand for example the idea a "scout" phenotypus of human exists, you could appreciate the power education can have on such a human beeing. There is actually only years of school (no matter what grades) and a loving stabilizing environment between a rambling story teller beneath a bridge and a grammy-clinging story writer before a notebook. Enemys everywhere was once useful for some parts.

Politics should include the craft, to create the most powerfull constellation from these diffrent parts, working in harmony. Leviathancybernetics! If we have to have manipulation, at least make it a factory creating a thousand Musks.

If we could accept that we can not percieve neural complexity, because our brains only make flat copies - we could stop making foolish one size fits all laws and rulings. Stopping to demand from one what s/he can not be, and help another to become what is easy for one.

Instead, well you know what we have instead. Well intentioned helplessness and bad intentioned tribalism.

But i digress.. this could have been such a nice flamewar, to roast advertisement marsh-mellows on.
The Seattle Flu Study collects sample from people in the community, even before they are sick. Those samples will now be retested to look for this new coronavirus https://seattleflu.org/updates
I'm glad that you mentioned $0.02/API call here, because it doesn't seem clear through the signup/configuration phase prior to adding funds. I suggest that you make it abundantly clear from one or more of those steps. Did I miss it?

Good luck to you.
> We are getting to the point where lectures should be mandated to be recorded and put into the public domain

Does that really make sense? I thought MIT was a private institution. The research is often publicly funded but I don't believe that's the case for the tuition.
That's what would detract you from the community? You must be joking.
Well aren't they still local then? It doesn't teleport the facilities thousands of miles away.
Reminds me of https://www.nutonian.com/products/eureqa/ which I used quite productively to model multivariate distributions from data back in the 2000’s.
Funny how everything stays the same, but with a new set of players on the bandwagon.
3. Care leavers

4. Estranged students
In some cases that would be a feature.
The recent book VC: An American History by Tom Nicholas argues that the whaling industry in the early 19th century shared many characteristics with modern VC markets. The profits of whaling vessels had distributions similar to startups (most were not profitable, a few profitable, a very few delivered excess returns). Whaling captains were incentivized similar to startup founders (returns heavily tied to how much whale oil they harvested rather than a fixed salary). Many of the families that invested in whaling ventures branched out into other industries like textiles.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42449471-vc
I think what you're describing is close to scientific fallibilism. As a fallibilist I can maintain that there is objective truth, and that I can learn objective truth, but that I can always make errors, and there's no technique that can guarantee that there are no errors in my understanding.

This seems like a pretty reasonable way to frame methods of reason like science and philosophy. For instance, it offers a good explanation for why the scientific method is so effective, even though the explanation may differ from a lot of scientists' philosophy of science which does claim to offer methods which if followed precisely can give guarantees about objective truth.
That doesn’t mean they have somewhere they can go home and still commit to studying.

Some folks will go home to places with their own bedrooms, or even a family study, or a good local library.

Some will go home to nothing like anything of the above.
> Which comes off as mutinous.

More like infiltration.
A truth stated passionately doesn't become false. A falsehood stated calmly doesn't become true. Appeal to emotion is always a logical fallacy.

Beware those whose sole argument is "you are a bully".
Ar Harvard (same thing happening) from what I’ve read on their website, you need to get rid of all your stuff like in an usual move out.
I think the point was, what happens to working class or poor students who don't have a stable home--with broadband, adequate study space, food, etc--to go back to? Those needs were covered by MIT while the students were on campus; will they be covered by MIT now that students are forced to leave? If not, it seems like this is a ham-fisted response that ignores the needs of students who don't come from comfortable backgrounds.
Bottlerocket OS
> chances are that people didn't actually ask to be corrected

If you remove the tweets that are something the parent tweet didn't ask for comment on, there would be nothing left.
The Clitoris: A Reveal Two Millennia in the Making
He forgot to add in some 60 Hz (or 50 Hz) buzz. Maybe add in a bit of crackling as well since it's now spring and wet around here...
Wait but they're gonna fly home that doesn't make sense either
And yet, if that's what it took to drive corporate adoption of open source software, it was almost certainly worth it...

Can you imagine Linux in a world where companies like Google don't contribute kernel patches? Because I think that would look like a world where all the best OSes were proprietary.
Doesn't help when every box store has a slightly different model number with a slightly different price
Okay didn't realize they have to leave the dorm also when I first read it. But it looks like they can make exceptions for...

> Students who do not have a home to go to, or for whom going home would be unsafe given the circumstances of their home country or homelife.
Diagnostic Testing for the Novel Coronavirus