skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, the whole point of the Abilene paradox is that it's something that happens when everyone's level of regret they'd have from doing the thing doesn't exceed their level of regret from social approbation if it turns out everyone else did want to do the thing and they had to be the one to argue against it. So in the end everyone loses a little utility—rather than everyone expecting to lose a lot of utility (in the form of personal social capital), and then actually losing nothing-at-all when it turns out nobody's on the other side of the argument.

If you want to stand up for a lack of decorum in your community, there's nothing stopping you; but the behavioral economics just don't work out in favor of anyone following after your example, and do in fact work out in favor of the rest of the group tearing down the presumed-social-more-violator to protect themselves from being associated with you. (Again, even in cases where everyone turns out to secretly agree with you!)
That's awesome!

It shouldn't have any issues with multi-sim card phones. The phone number verification would work as if you have multiple Google accounts when trying to sign-in with Google. If you have 2 phone numbers, and have verified those numbers in any app that uses Cotter, then we can check that both numbers are verified on that device.

We don't link the phone numbers. It's up to the website/app if they would allow multiple phone numbers for the same account (like Github, you can have multiple email addresses).
I am at a (small) academic meeting right now and all of the professors in attendance fear how much extra effort this move to online-only classes will be and how it is going to cut into their research time.
Debian does that (indirectly, as in the DPL is elected and the buck stops with them), and people still complain and disagree about CoC-related decisions.
ESR was OFF the lists for 20 years prior to posting this message. Seems like he's out-of-touch with what the community standards are.
Nah. Do your best to be objective. The work you accomplish while attempting objectivity will be better than the work you would have accomplished while attempting to account for your lack of objectivity.

No one is counting on your work being perfect. Science is a communal activity that self-corrects in the long-term.

To put it another way, here's Cormac McCarthy:

> You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.

More from the article:

> As I found while writing my 2019 book Superior: The Return of Race Science, geneticists today rightly treat eugenics as a laughable proposition...

If eugenics doesn't work then how come every single Border Collie is smarter than every single English Bulldog?

> ... and the concept of biological race — the belief that humans can be subdivided into distinct groups with meaningful differences between them — as easily debunked nonsense.

You can divide humans into whatever groups you like based on whichever criteria you like. The question is whether those groupings are useful and sometimes...they are. Whether you call those groupings "races" or something else is a semantic argument.
Well I'm just talking a few Waco Texas, nothing too apocalyptic on the insurrectionary front. If the government learned how to stimulate the economy for real, and starting doing some all the deferred infrastructure work, I'm sure it could lift us out of the economic woes the quarantine created. It would would just take some time to figure it out, the US governments are all brawn no brains right now, but things ran decently well in WWII so we'd get there after a while.

I'm not saying this is good, I'm saying if you don't like a huge state intervention, don't pat yourself on the back saying it would go miserably enough to make the government change its mind.
during midterms. with the expectation that either they or parents are rich enough to afford flights somewhere else on three day notice.
https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI+Board+of+Directors/...

He is referring to one of the people running for the board of directors whose major goal is to introduce Codes of Conduct into open source projects.
There's a lot of value in running through the lecture live with a new class. Different students, different needs.

If my undergrad CS Theory prof had used recorded lectures, it would've been great for 5 of us, and terrible for the other 30 or so. There were sections that they just did not get and needed repetition or clarifying examples. What's more, the students often don't know what they aren't understanding (sometimes they do, but often not). So they don't know how to ask for clarification because they don't know what needs clarification.

Waiting for test, quizzes, or homeworks is often too late. What worked out well for my classmates was the help of the professor and a couple of us who got the material faster. The three of us could observe the class and identify what material (by non-verbal reaction or by questions) needed to be delved into more. Try doing that with a set of recorded lectures.

In the end, perhaps you have a sufficiently complete set of recorded lectures that cover everything. But you still have the challenge of identifying what students need help with and helping them immediately, instead of failing a large portion of a class and hoping you do better the next time.

I mean, this is literally the waterfall vs agile debate. Classrooms are agile and responsive to student needs, recorded lectures are not.
If you said that at work you would be fired, because nobody can have a civilized conversation with you and no progress can be made. Nobody is stopping him from expressing himself in his personal life but if you are going to bring your crap to work expect there to be consequences.
> More disturbing: if/when we reach the day when an AI told us, "I'm conscious, I have feelings, the lights are on, it is like something to be me": how would we know if that were actually the case?

Right, it could just be lying to us to gain sympathy while it makes lots of paper clips. Ex Machina was interesting in that the robot seemed to be very human, but was also manipulating the subject of the test. But yet again, it did seem like she was conscious.
Sure, but these don't really cause the same issues as cars. They are more like weather protected ebikes. They can even fit inside most bike lanes.
It's interesting that Harvard and MIT have done this. UW makes a little bit more sense, but the scale of the known outbreak in Cambridge isn't nearly as large at the moment (I live in Kendall Square and work next to MIT).

Interestingly, UMass Boston still hasn't done this despite having a student confirmed with it a few weeks ago. I wonder if the administrations believe Columbia/Stanford/MIT/Harvard students deserve more protection or something - that sort of attitude wouldn't surprise me.
Does someone have a list of common, non-OSI approved software licenses for FOSS software?

I might want to relicense some projects I have...
I work for a company that recently reconsidered our stance on OpenShift. Long story short, we looked at vanilla k8s rather fondly because of nearly all of the counter-points. The factor that brought us back to OpenShift was the secure-by-default aspect and that some of the training wheels (OCP console) couldn't be replaced by vanilla in a secure way.

Here's what we do:

- We don't use "develop on OpenShift" features like Eclipse Che or on-demand Jenkins nodes to build a project

- We don't use OpenShift-specific resources if there's _any_ alternative in the vanilla kubernetes resource definitions (e.g., use Ingress instead of Route)

- Use outside CI/CD to handle building and packaging of the applications, then deploy them with Helm like any other Kubernetes cluster

- Use the OCP console like a crutch of last resort, preferring `kubectl` whenever possible

All of this helps avoid vendor lock-in as much as possible while still taking advantage of the secure-by-default approach to a kubernetes cluster.

Talking with Red Hat engineers, it sounds like the OpenShift-specific things are contributed upstream and, while they may not become available by exactly that name and syntax, essentially the same functionality does come into vanilla Kubernetes. Routes inspired Ingress resources, for instance. The official stance is for OpenShift users to prefer the vanilla resources because the OpenShift-specific ones are intended to be shims.

(not a Red Hat employee, just work for a company that is a customer)
It's a very smart decision. You have to imagine the chaos that entails vs the chaos that could entail if they didn't. Err on the side of caution with this stuff.
Well I guess if you never clean or tidy and it doesn't bother you and you're able to remain productive, then what I'm saying doesn't apply.
Having worked with a bit of YAML, RAML,(which is a superset of YAML) and JSON style configs/schemas... I'd take JSON over YAML if only because it seems to be more expressive.

Still, everyone forgets HOCON [1] is a thing, which solves many of the problems expressed here about JSON -for configuration-. It's easy to clearly specify things like time, reference other parts of the config, or if you want to change just one value, you can add that to the 'end' of the HOCON file and be GTG.

[1] - https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md
If you said that at work how well would it go you think...
I don't know about others, but personally, I find the overly politically correct "safe spaces" much less welcoming and counter to the spirit of the internet.

It feels like you constantly need to tip-toe around with every word to avoid the risk of offending someone. I'm much more bothered by people trying to police the world than someone who is rude or that disagrees with me.

In a properly functioning society, people need to be able to deal with beliefs they don't agree with and a certain amount of offensiveness. Sheltering people only makes them less able to function in society.
> I have been banned from the Drupal project for Code Of Conduct violations in 2016.

Out of curiosity, how long did they ban you for and will they give you any 'parole hearings' for good behavior? Or is this a lifetime ban without possibility of parole? In most countries somebody convicted of murder might hope to one day be declared rehabilitated, but it's not clear to me what role rehabilitation plays in CoC enforcement.
The can make exceptions to allow students to stay:

> 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.
Would buffered connectivity mitigate what is becoming a Swiss cheese infrastructure of hardware (security holes in everything)?

Direct connectivity (on Internet 1.0) seems to be playing with fire nowadays.

Security admins probably love the fact that they are guarding their assets from unknown threats/vulnerabilities that major manufactures have included in their products.
Comparing values in the past to values today is tricky and comes down to judgement.

"It helps if one understands how the comparators are constructed. They have two components. The first is prices of a range of goods which the ordinary person might buy, such as bread, meat, beer or clothing and possibly rent or the cost of fuel; these are gathered from a range of archives or surveys. These prices have to be added together in a way which reflects the proportions which these items formed in the spending of an average person. If – as was the case in the past – bread accounted for 25 per cent of what the average person spent, then the price of bread has to have an influence of 25 per cent on the overall set of prices. This is known, in the jargon, as its ‘weight’ and the weights add up to 100 per cent. A calculation is then done for each year, multiplying the price of each good by its weight, adding the results together and finally dividing by the number of items to get an average price of goods for that year. Then, if the result is a figure of, say, £10 in 1800 but of £767 in 2017, we say that prices rose between those two dates by about 77 times. Another way of putting it is that £10 in 1800 equates to – or has the same ‘purchasing power’ as – £767 today."

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/changing-value-...
One could argue that it is possible to speak passionately while following the CoC, and that only certain kinds of passionate speech are forbidden.

What I find interesting are the ways that CoCs are sometimes selectively weaponized.
Beats getting quarantined.
> How ironic: A person railing against cancel culture gets cancelled by cancel culture.

That’s not ironic. It would be ironic if a supporter of cancel culture got canceled.
Same at Harvard, undergrads have to leave their dorms https://dso.college.harvard.edu/coronavirusfaq
can you please not spread misinformation. there's obviously exceptions in the policy for such cases. they're not going to toss students to the street. the goal is to drastically reduce the number of students living on campus and sharing dorm space (rooms, bathrooms/showers, eating halls).
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I freely admit I did it mostly for the lulz, but the whole point of twitter is that people are shouting into the ether. Hardly anyone "asks" for responses from other accounts. My account has as much right to post and reply as theirs did.
I think large decisive moves like this may seem to some to be an overreaction, but it will prove to be the correct decision in hindsight (like the early travel bans). Exponential growth is real, and anything we can do to slow the rate of infection will save lives.

As a current undergrad at UC Berkeley, they've moved all classes here online [1], and exams are either being postponed or converted to take-home assignments. I'm currently accessing lectures through Zoom.

[1] https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/03/09/as-coronavirus-spreads-...
One non-tech even that was cancelled: Arnold Fitness Expo (Columbus, OH)
Keyword is casual workers which I suppose is the same as interim and flex workers. These have different rights [1] than people who have a contract. Same with self-employed.

[1] This has its pros and cons but that is beyond the scope of the point.
>Shouldn't science always, without any exception, be viewed in isolation from the past and politics?

Try telling that to Galileo.
I doubt there has ever been any serious democratic process in which some participants didn't complain. That seems to be the nature of the beast; if you want to suppress complainers you leave democracy behind and enter into the realm of authoritarianism.
Big Tech: The Law of Power?
Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks!

Any thoughts on our pricing?
The "empty out campus" bit seems a bit overmuch to me. What's the epidemiologists' take on something like this?

I can see asking students who left for spring break not to come back. But asking students currently on campus to leave, and even demanding that they travel internationally, seems like it might just increase everyone's risk of exposure, and spread it around. Especially considering that, at least according to the stats they post on their website, about 75% of their international students are from Asia or Europe.
They actually DID cancel DEFCON China.
I am skeptical of these things. I would have cancelled classes but left everyone in their dorms. All the travel is no good, and high density but young and healthy people (watch their health improve with no crushing amounts of homework!) I wouldn't expect to speed up an epidemic as long as they aren't traveling.
I’m glad it got banned, frankly. Those sorts of bots on Reddit are extremely spammy and annoying.

Being a “grammar nazi” used to be a thing on Reddit and I’m glad it died out.
You're still centralizing a power. It would probably be better to have some rule that's based on quorum and consensus than specifically elected people. E.g. at least some percentage (say 60%) of active contributors must weigh in and some percentage of those (perhaps a simple majority) must agree that a violation took place.

Granted, that's still open to abuse if the quorum requirements are small enough (how small would depend on the quantity of abusers), but I feel it's more in spirit than centralizing the power into a sub-group.

I will further grant that it's likely that, in any group, only a subset will care enough about these things to police them, so the point may be moot.
That’s not how the real world works. Just like employee wages don’t magically go up when a few employers pay more, it is unlikely that things will shift in employees favor.

The situation now will just be the new normal.
This was my experience. I've been working with Vue for the last few years so Svelte's syntax for loops and conditionals looked a bit funky...but after using it I realised that it's a lot more readable and enjoyable to work with.
You've got it backwards.

Because OSS is successful, unless you're in college, the majority of people contributing are those who are being paid to or are independent consultants, as that's possible now.

It's no longer a hobbyist interest, solely the domain of prolific idealists.

ESR has been a victim of his own success. Back when OSS was the upstart ideal, an iconoclast could herd the (small) number of cats and motivate people. The fight against Goliath made it easier to overlook/distract from one's foibles.

This is no longer the case. His fore-bearers are thankful for what he's done, but he's no longer critical. He's not a guy holding a torch in the dark anymore, for which you are grateful to stand near, whatever your personal feelings towards them.

I also suspect that because his influence has diminished as the movement has become normalized, this loss of power might be perceived "de-platforming" by more imagined forces (in his own words, feminism, SJWs, socialists, etc.), when it reality it is just him coming to terms with his no longer being a giant on whose shoulders it is necessary to stand.

That can kinda make a guy feel small, especially for someone who seems to lack humility (based on his own writings)
This is a free research tool from the American Society for Cybernetics. There's an explanatory video at http://lissack.com/FindRelatedBooks.com.mp4 .
Why should there be extra effort for online classes?

My university had a course where an external professor would deliver a mixed online/offline course. Videos were available on institute website. Professor would hold a class every week to go through that week's contents and clarify student doubts.

This saved a ton of effort on the professor's part.
My university (UC Santa Barbara) just cancelled all in-person classes minutes ago. I would expect students to start leaving campus soon, but it’s not required so I guess it’s better than this…
FWIW, our new Redux Toolkit package is specifically designed to eliminate the typical "boilerplate" concerns when using Redux:

https://redux-toolkit.js.org
China Slowed Coronavirus: Lockdowns, Surveillance, Enforcers
probably MIT administration tries to CYA by "Doing Something" "out of abundance of caution". After all if people get infected while on campus some creative lawyer may probably sue whereis MIT would bear no responsibility for whatever happens as result of all those people forced to spread around the country and the globe.

Some commenters mentioned that that is a preparation for possible outbreak there. Well, i'd think that preparation for outbreak would be making sure that various resources are stocked up (e.g. masks, handheld non-contact infrared thermometers, etc.), necessary personnel brought up and trained, "civilians" educated and all the travel and mass gatherings canceled/discouraged, quarantine procedures and checkpoints are established and ready to be activated, etc... That of course cost money and other resources. An alternative is to kick the can out to somewhere else.
Why I dislike the rem unit (2013)
> This one incident turned me off of not only that person but the entire cancel culture movement.

Are you perchance saying that you "cancelled" the cancel culture movement based on a single interaction you didn't enjoy?
'Intellegence' in the title should be 'intelligence', as in the linked document.
The signalling is definitely a thing, but the bigger thing is just getting together with lots of smart people and working together to learn this stuff.
We also used Passbolt in the 6-people IT team of my former employer and it felt nice because it's open source and its development is supported by a state (Luxemburg).

The GPG encryption un-usability is a bit abstracted away by a nice (but not perfect) browser plugin.

The CLI is a bit awkward and incomplete -- so much so that I wrote a fuzzy-search python wrapper with auto-clearing clipboard support etc. around it which served me well enough.
The part under discussion appears to be a quoted earlier message; HOWEVER I would much prefer a link to a message plausibly at least to be from the same server as ESR's other messages.

I would like a link to the source, rather than someone saying a given source happened to send X.

I could not in a quick 5 min of searching through Eric S. Raymond posts on that thread, see the actual source that is quoted.
"you were more focused on the utility of our infrastructure than our individual skill sets and knowledge."

No, I'm focused on the individualist/self-sufficient mentality of Americans, due to their history of being on the frontier, and very remote rural areas.

Sometimes this mentality exhibits itself in material behavior, i.e. building isolated plumbing/water/sewage systems. Owning tractors and such machinery for working around the large plot.

Sometimes the mentality is expressed in behaviour that is really irrelevant, like buying SUVs or Trucks that are not needed and uses for 'status'.

Sometimes it's purely ideological, like voting for a Republican when such individuals might be better served by a specific social policy.

Sometimes it's both - like 'gun laws'. Prevalence of guns makes them easily available to idiots leading to more gun violence. But it also theoretically might save you in a specific circumstance, and, there's that whole thing about 'tyrannical governments'.

The 'attitude' definitely exists.
There is an exception for some international students as stated elsewhere in the thread, but yes I still agree. Even the domestic churn of thousands of schools from various schools going home is no good. Massachusetts surely has one of the highest hospital densities in the country, too.

I would cancel classes, but allow everyone that wants to to stay put.
Ah, but a license, no matter how permissive, does not ipso facto cause the admission of questionable changes into the upstream of a project that everybody trusts.

It just means you can do whatever you want with your copy, within the scope of whatever realm you control.
What is correctly? You have to understand that SGX was built on an existing infrastructure, without rebuilding the chip. Intel architects ignored side channels for years. So the security specification was being met, except it had ignored a crucial threat. Small comfort. My point is that "correctly" for security can only be defined in the context of a threat model. If the model is incomplete, then you are exposed. I am not aware of a complete threat model for TEE design. And the reason is clear. The threats develop over time, springing into existence as an emergent property of complex designs rewarded by a market that is not keen on incentivizing secure design.
When you go one hour back for daylight savings, you can't tell with just epoch if it's the first or second time you're at that time. With timezones you can, since it switches between PST and PDT.