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I am mostly using GUIX package manager as a package manager on multiple foreign distros. It makes it very easy to get up to date versions of free software, when the repositories of your distro lack behind.

I've also experimented recently with using it for creating environments (actually called profiles in GUIX) for programming projects. That also works.

There is a lot more to discover for me, once I get around to it.
How is protesting against police brutality is same as protesting against ICE? That sounds like partisanship. If you support one issue then you will also have to support other issues.
Because the left cannot be reasoned with. It’s either their way or you’re a fascist
Often it's because they would rather have the legislative branch figure it out.
How does this square with people being angry at banks working with drug cartels, or at a Chinese cellphone manufacturer doing business in Iran?

There are, in fact 'wrong customers' for the American right. It's just that their list of 'wrong customers' is different from that of the left.
Years and years of messy and disingenuous arguments, with a lot of straw men involved, so politicians can generate a continual moral high ground.
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It seems like there is not much to analyze. The headline is phrased as if the court issued some statement saying "we will not hear cases challenging qualified immunity." In fact, there were some qualified immunity challenges that had petitioned the court to be heard, and they were denied along with many other petitions, with no explanation. There is almost never any explanation when they deny a petition.

So there's not really anything new, it's just more newsworthy because of the current societal context. It's the same bad precedent that they've been using for decades, and they're denying these cases with the unstated logic "we already decided this issue and you haven't convinced us we need to revisit it."
Well. Business that don’t keep up with technology get left behind. I have no sympathy for developers who sat on their hands for a decade.
Title VII prohibits employment discrimination against someone “because of” their “sex.” Supreme Court precedent holds that this phrase includes discriminating against someone for not conforming to sex stereotypes. For example, in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins the Court held that it was Title VII discrimination to fire a woman because she had masculine behaviors. She wasn’t fired because she was a woman, but because she was a woman who did not conform to stereotypes and norms applicable to women.

In view of that precedent, Title VII can be seen to prohibit sexual orientation and sex discrimination. You can’t fire a man for failing to conform to the male norm of dating women. You likewise can’t fire someone whose sex is male, but whose gender identity is female (i.e. she does not conform to the gender expression expected of biological men).
Am I the only person who actually liked Hertz?

Never had a bad experience with them.

Tried a cheaper car rental place ONE time, and the brakes failed on the car...
Scraping traffic-cams to capture police violence
> The project is seeking technical volunteers to help manage the video they can get.

> They have an open call for sysadmins, UI designers, and ML specialists to help improve the tool, and they're actively seeking connections in the NYC DOT and with activists in other cities to expand the tool's reach.
If your government isn't willing to compromise with you but desires something from you, it's pretty straightforward that you should withhold as much as you can until they decide to compromise.
Presumably (haven't read the paper yet) that their network provably becomes a universal function approximator in the limit of infinite size.

Reading... actually the proof seems to be in

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01897
Especially given the fact of unlimited political donations by corporations.

Anyone who says "let's not make this political" is very naive.
I've been considering integrating the ability to embed diagrams written with Mermaid into the issue tracker I'm building [0]. Would you say it's ready/robust enough for that? People typically want to scribble down quick architecture or sequence diagrams (or maybe some class diagrams).

0: https://kitemaker.co
There are some companies working in this space, like Opta and Statsbomb. As far as I know, they both use a mix of image processing and humans to collect the data.

It takes a lot of work, but also supports a huge and growing industry. E.g. data scouting is increasingly used by clubs to increase the pool of potential hires.
How is it political to accept business from a federal agency? One could argue it’s more political to pick and choose which federal agency to work for - or whether to do it at all - based on whether you agree with that agency’s mission. This is really getting out of hand. Now businesses have to let the world (and mostly people who are not customers) know where they stand by choosing customers based on where those customers stand on various issues? This is insanity.
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Interesting. It wasn't that long ago that a team I was on was looking for a way to do something similar in TS. In our case we wanted our types to generate JSON schemas for ajv so we could do away with writing them by hand. This seems accomplish a large part of what we needed at the time.
CSS frameworks are worthless. CSS should be written on a case-by-case basis. CSS frameworks are bloated and contain unused styles and provide no benefit to the developer but instead provides frustration when trying to write selectors to override CSS framework selectors. PLEASE STOP MAKING CSS FRAMEWORKS!
Civility has already broken down because of the US government’s actions. Schools and other parts of the government are ending their contracts with police. People all over the country and looking hard at their actions and the actions of those companies or other entities they associate with.

When the government is acting this badly the social contract gets weaker and begins to fall apart.

This is just a reaction to those larger forces. Until those larger problems are addressed and the government starts acting more civilized there is no reason to expect or hope that business as usual will continue.
Because there is a rather large disagreement on what "fair immigration" looks like, plus, if I'm being cynical, its an amazing issue to raise money on.

These days, neither party is all that stable. There are many voices trying to redefine both and the reasonable people in the middle are not being listened to. I honestly don't know the final resolution.
Independent of the technical issues being discussed I find this site to be an interesting example of the politics around open source development. It is run anonymously (out of albania, presumably to avoid whois lookups) and does not link to responses or opposing points of view. In addition it is posted regularly on various technology sites such as reddit, HN, etc.
I think it's probably more that people have lost trust in the political proces and are pushing on private companies as a last resort to effect change.
As the network size increases, it can learn more complex functions. When the network gets bigger and bigger, it gets closer to being able to learn any arbitrary function.
I mean, obviously, yes, I agree -- the conditions are not even remotely parallel, and this decision is clearly just a case of the Supreme Court expanding a law in a direction that is _clearly_ the correct direction. They are acting here as legislators, fixing a bad law to be better, and the "logic" they use to justify it is clearly incorrect and not internally consistent, and is just a patina of justification around the decision to legislate from the bench.

We should be way more angry at our representatives in Congress who have refused to incorporate this language into the law than at the justices who oppose this opinion on what seem to me to be much more well-reasoned grounds that are unrelated to their opinions on the treatment of these classes of people.

Still, expediency here counts for something, and in the end this is a positive move with tangible gains in the near term.
Not that far from Uber IPO filing tbh.
I understand the position, but nowadays Twitter is full of #BlackLivesMatter posts, pride flags can be seen commonly, all while, to bring the two most currently visible things that haven't changed, the sex/race pay gaps are still there, and Black folk are still much more likely to die during police interventions.

I guess I'm glad that the recognition and posts from CEOs is there, but posting rainbow flags and "Black Lives Matter" on Twitter has simply become fashionable now. It's possible to do that and do nothing else in order to announce a success and go, "hey, we support minorities" while ignoring problems that have people mispaid, misjudged, locked up for statistically longer, or just plain outright killed.

That's the elephant in the room I've mentioned, and unless these Twitter statistics and CEO or corporate recognition you mention translate into daily reality of these minority groups, they're not of much actual and practical use. They're not the goal, they're the means.

EDIT: in other words, if one of your Black friends gets shot "by accident" during a random police intervention - oh goodness, it's really sad, Alexa play some jazz music. But hey, #BlackLivesMatter is trending in social media, that must means that things are good for the Black folk, right?

/s

EDIT2: The word "cheap" is there because such a stunt is very far from being "expensive". It costs little to nothing, it can be done without other actions or at minimal costs, it does not require changes of management or company course or internal rules. It is, therefore, by definition, cheap.
Parents, older siblings, managers/bosses, almost any TV personality. Also you might have someone who has a profession in the topic at hand, but isn't an expert. Like your older cousin who is a first-year Comp Sci major probably isn't the hacking/security expert you should be appealing to.
What about anti-discrimnation laws? Where do you stand on the issue with the baker refusing to bake a cake for the gay couple?
I did a POC of this over a year ago [0]. Now, with better libp2p-js library, it is surely much easier/better nowadays.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/webrtc-ipfs-signaling
Corporations are people. If they don't act ethically, we can't expect people to act ethically.

Ending a contract with an agency that runs concentration camps is good. Better, though, is to not accept any contracts with any government that runs concentration camps.

Small steps are good. Big steps are better.

PS: great fear from all paying customers that run concentration camps that an internet mob could separate them from their code at any time -- sounds like a good policy to me. Not as good as "Don't be evil", but reasonably close.
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Maybe we shouldn't award karma for submissions, if it leads to the problem of multiple people vying to submit something first and leading to duplicate submissions?
GP may have been referring to the political stand of taking on ICE as a customer. GitHub brass can pretend they're being apolitical, just as IBM did...
I do in fact agree with you, but I'm coming from the opposite side of the spectrum.

Companies do in fact involve themselves with politics quite a bit. It's called lobbying. I do think that lobbying is the single most important threat to Democracy, in the US and everywhere else. I do wish that companies stayed out of politics in that way.

I also think that when one side is literally putting children in cages it's not a "slippery slope".
Given the price premium on these drives in the first place I don't even get why they'd do this? Stick the SMR drives in the EasyStore line or whatever, which is regularly half the $/gb of the bare RED drives. That'd probably also discourage some shucking.
Which provider is this? Sounds like what I'm looking for.
I am in favor of all automation and I totally agree that the tool is valuable. I am sorry if my comments seemed on other direction.

What I was trying to say was basically, without tooling also you can manage the debt from feature flags.

Answer to the RIDES_NEW_FEATURE question is about "you definitely don't want to block someone from fixing a crash because they have pending expired flags" mainly.

When I am disabling a flag, if I set isNewFeatureEnabled to False, basically, I am removing bloat instantly. Then when I have time to review the code I can also remove the dead code. Actually this is fixing the concerns in your blog post about "accidental activation" and "bloat" without waiting developers to fix the code. Piranha can set flag to stale value, then later can send the developer task to fix the dead code.

My flow is little bit more complicated then I replied actually, I have also assets etc related to feature flags. CI pipeline also removing non-used assets for that flag when it is stale. So basically I have more like: function isNewFeatureEnabled { return isFlagEnabled(flag) && getFlagValue("RIDES_NEW_FEATURE") }

What I am curious on this topic, do you have any kind of conflict detection for your feature flags?
That's a stretch. Many think what they are doing is not legal. And I doubt that everything they do is spelled out in law. There is a lot of policy to what happens in ICE.
>There's no way that were completely unaware of this possibility when they started the service.

Of course there is. You overestimate small companies, which might not even have a permanent lawyer on board...
GP didn't say they should be required to work with certain entities, only that it could jeopardize their stance with other, less controversial, entities.
If they are keen to sentence people to lifetime jail for spreading the covid, imagine what they will do to someone who reveals the identity of their operatives and their location
What about hand-washing?
Suppose that:

1. You provide tools to a group.
2. You believe (in a informed way) that the group intends to act immorally.
3. Your tools will make the group more effective at acting immorally.

Do you have any responsibility for what happens?
They mean that if you add parameters, the learning capability of their approach grows by a similar amount as if you would add the same number of parameters to a conv+ReLu network (the standard approach).

That "universal" is a weird claim in my opinion, but they mean that with enough parameters, this architecture can learn everything.
Every viewpoint some aggrieved group disagrees with gets blamed on the Court "making stuff up out of thin air". The Supreme Court believes it did its job the fist time and interpreted the laws as they are written commensurate with the Constitution, and most importantly if you read between the lines, does not believe the Court as it is made up would arrive at a different conclusion. Changes to such law need to come from the several hundred elected people responsible for such things.
Why is this targeting full stack developers? Seems like a quite simple CSS framework.

To be honest, it's also really quite simple. I don't have much feedback - it's basic and it works to that level - except for that "maximalist" and "for full stack developers" didn't register with me, a full stack developer, so you might want to try a different branding
Every conversation on here about a legal case is: people who aren't lawyers (definitely not lawyers in China) doing a "what's legal" take, versus people doing a "legal realist" take, versus people doing a "what I think should be legal" take. Some mishmash in between.

All three of these takes are pretty basic in their extreme ("we shall see (in court)," "capitalism," and "as long as the law absolves specifically me and people I like." Let's just play it out:

- Did she break some laws? Probably, and whoever broke the law most clearly will lose in court. We'll see what the judge says. Not sure if judges in China are impartial.

- But if she went to court, the insurance company is pretty rich so it will win. Also this is China. As a matter of who should win...

- I will never be an insurance company, even if I sometimes would like cheaper insurance I will never be on the wrong side of justice here, they're a bunch of scoundrels. What about all the ways they rob me?

Here you go, that's every legal perspective you're going to hear, from a commenter or journalist or whatever. Obviously what we want to know is HOW she did it.
I don’t think that quite explains it—try applying that thought experiment to a man or woman fired for being bisexual. I think the Price Waterhouse precedent of conforming to sex-based norms is an indispensable part of the puzzle.
I agree that it's time to legislate, but this is not one of those cases where Congress caused a problem and is trying to use the court to clean it up. In this case, the courts completely invented an immunity precedent out of nothing, and now Congress will have to fix it.

Just want to note that legislators are a little less at fault here than they normally are.
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Thanks for making Notebag, I just tried it out and love how straightforward it is! I hope you'll consider adding math support in the future! Feel free to use my math plugin [1] as a starting point, it's MIT licensed. (still under development, but it's solid enough to use already)

[1] https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math
Yes, it's a bit surprising that things like α, β, γ can be written, but not other letters. Yet, you can go a long way using unicode math symbols.

EDIT: just to try, it seems that it works 平仮名 ひらがな 漢字 汉字 한자
With that kind of workforce I'd be reluctant to host private repositories there.

Who knows what a radicalized workforce will do in the search
for compromising material.

Curious how Friedman will get out if that one. What goes around, comes around.
Hey! Yeah the spacing is kind of small, I changed it up last minute and now regret it

Luckily it’s easy to change on future themes and even the default one with a few css variables

https://github.com/swlkr/ridgecss/blob/master/ridge-dark.css...
By this logic, businesses would be able to turn away customers based on their race.
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Yeah, that works great when they make a new list each month.. I’ve had to threaten GPDR complaints to get off lists I hadn’t even subscribed too haha
Would also love to hear the answer to this question. You can’t have it both ways.
There are a few comments in here already decrying “politicization”.

Guess what? Politics are interwoven in every aspect of our lives. You cannot choose to “avoid” them; even suggesting you can be politically neutral is a political stance that comes from a place of privilege, because only the privileged can avoid experiencing negative political consequences inside their bubble.

Collaboration with ICE is collaboration with ICE, whether it’s “just hosting code” or actually contracted by them to develop their systems. It’s the same deal with Amazon or Facebook or whoever. If you work for them you need to admit to yourself that you are an enabler. Most people can’t admit that to themselves, so they maintain an unhealthy cognitive dissonance to keep going.

And it hurts when that dissonance is shattered.

Comparing supporting ICE to a marriage is nonsense, and thinking you can somehow help them be better by keeping them as a customer? A totally naive concept that has been shown not to work in practice since the US 2016 election. (In fact, supporting the monster makes them stronger; if it made them weaker, why would they keep using your product?)

The reckoning we are seeing in tech is long overdue. As developers we are no longer seeing our actions as “politically neutral” and are starting to understand the power we yield collectively to make positive change to our industry.

Nat Friedman is on the wrong side of history here. These empty words are no longer sufficient. Hopefully he figures that out before his tenure at GitHub comes to an end.
Right, storing your code anywhere presents risk (including self-hosted on a FOSS stack). With GitHub/MSFT, that risk includes "they decide they don't like you anymore" amongst others. How high is that risk? You'll think it's a lot higher if GitHub were to kick off ICE.

(disclaimer: I hold a small amount of MSFT stock, though this was not on my mind when I wrote my original post - thanks for the reminder).
Yeah, it's built on GraalVM, so it'll handle any JVM based language like a champ
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There was nothing in the justice department ruling that forced them to stand still when it came to browser development. Apple moves faster with Safari/WebKit after they started with KHTML. Apple wasn’t exactly a large company when they introduced Safari.

They also lost billions of dollars on the console market. Is it even as profitable as the AirPods now?

As far as getting in mobile too early. Failing at the Newton didn’t exactly hurt Apple getting back into mobile. You do remember that Apple was almost bankrupt in the 90s?

Apple was able to port OS X to the iPhone partially because it didn’t have all of the bloat of Windows.

I developed on WinCE devices using both .Net CF and C++/MFC. I am very much aware of the limitations.
It's really not that different of an issue (black lives matter but Latino lives don't?); I think the word you're looking for is not partisanship but intersectionality.
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Hi. first i'm asking you a question about why you posted climacell, not sure you answered it? Feel free to answer it or not.

To answer your question, if you want to obtain raw sensor data our government (and some volunteers) maintains a network of thousands of weather stations. Many are automated, many are people doing manual obs. If you know how to write code you can programmatically obtain these data.

However you might be confused... climacell does forecasts and you asked about finding station data? They are completely different things. I have no insight into what climacell does but i am a knowledge person in industry. I can tell you that nobody has some groudnbreaking 'AI' machine learning algorithm that is amazingly great at forecasting weather. If such a thing did exist, that person would have zillions of dollars because they can accurately predict weather better then anyone else.
Attributing this to laziness is absolutely wrong, IMO. The political process and system is deeply broken and people realise that they cannot make their voices heard through it. So they find alternatives.
I have long thought there should be a "death penalty" for corporations.

The "execution" would be forced replacement of the entire C-suite. Additionally, the CEO would be barred from the C-suite or Board positions forever.

This punishment would be reserved for corporations that knowingly kill people, such as pharma pushing opioids or Boeing hiding flaws in their planes.
Sexuality is getting closer and closer to being a fully-protected class, so they are going to have to suck it up, just like the bakers who didn't want to serve black people decades ago.

They can deny service to anyone, so long as it does not run afoul of discrimination laws. ICE is not a protected class.
>All corporations are political

This is a meaningless statement that people use to justify railroading their personal politics into everything.

By making my services available to everyone equally I am emphatically not making a political statement.

This same sentiment is effectively turning an increasing proportion of consumers away from entertainment media.