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The letter was signed by the The NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee. The members of that committee are listed on their code of conduct site. Seems pretty transparent to me.

https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct#persons-responsible
Er, I feel like you're actually deflating your own argument here. Note that the aforementioned clause in the US Constitution grants no power to Congress to dictate how states perform their own legislative elections. The scenario you're envisioning first requires a state to pass an alternative voting system via ballot, then for the state legislature elected by that voting system to sue the state itself to overturn it (which is guaranteed to be wildly unpopular among the electorate that just passed the ballot measure), then for the case to make it to SCOTUS, who can only overturn it for federal elections, not for any state elections, and especially not in state elections in states other than the one that challenged it. A state politician has nothing to gain and everything to lose by supporting such a measure.
MailChimp isn't a community is it? You can't read other people's mail if you're not on their address list. Recipients probably don't even know their emails came from MailChimp, let alone go there to participate in anything. With this rule, MailChimp is just poking their finger into organizations' private relationships with their subscribers.

Imagine a church emailing its members before Easter saying that Jesus rose from the dead. Since that's impossible, it's a clear violation of this misinformation rule. But I doubt MailChimp will ban it because their "sole discretion" is obviously going to be biased political opinion, not anything objective.
Depends on if you're primarily interested in getting utility as soon as possible, in which case use whatever solves the problem you'd most like to solve. If that is making some web app, that'd be Javascript.

If you're interested in learning programming well for its own sake, probably check out "How to Design Programs" by Felleisen et al., or "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson et al.
>I would gladly pay $X/mo for one appliance in perpetuity that I never have to think about it again.

That's a very common model. For example, our business didn't buy a printer/copier - rather it is pay-per-use and ostensibly under perpetual warranty while we're paying. If something breaks, a tech comes in and fixes it or replaces the unit. Coffee machines and commercial dishwashers are another example. All these can be leased and serviced for a monthly cost and typically don't require any up-front capital. It's very convenient but more expensive than an outright purchase.

This model works well for commercial enterprises, but it just isn't worth for consumers. It's like car leases - bad deal for consumers, but attractive due to flexibility for businesses.
I don't agree with the site's slant. I use the site as a collection of studies to click through and read directly. They also have studies on Vitamin D, Remdesivir, etc (along the top).

The studies that show no benefit aren't complete in and of themselves. I have yet to see some perfectly conducted RCT on HCQ. The treatment that was prescribed originally by Didier Raoult was HCQ + AZ + Zinc. I have a hard time finding a good RCT on those 3 drugs provided immediately after diagnosis. The retrospective analysis seems to indicate a benefit. Either way, I think the entire politicization of the drug early on in the pandemic, where it was cast as "dangerous" even though it has been approved as a phrophylactic in pregnant women and used as an antiviral for 60 years, was completely hysterical.
I simply do not trust the FBI. I do not think that the FBI, throughout its history, has earned our trust, and it has done many awful things to betray it. I see no evidence that this entity is materially different than it was when it attempted to gaslight Dr. King into suicide.

I think that this does warrant an investigation. We have the son of a powerful career politician offering to sell access to his Dad's office. We have a foreign corporation cutting a generous check on that basis. We have emails outlining these details in an archive that has been verified in part by one of the people in the "To" field, who was indeed a business partner in an earlier venture. We have an official decision being made during this time, by Joe, which is favorable to the corporation in question.

None of these facts are in dispute.

It seems the only dispute is whether they warrant an investigation by someone with more integrity than the FBI (ideally, a lot more).
> Is there a reason why […] is a better translation […]?

What do you mean with "a reason why"? From a synchronic or a diachronic point of view? Yes, there are reasons that linguists can provide. But for the mere layman, it will simply be weird to encounter such an utterance, full stop. Not that your question is non-sense, I would rather simply expect most people to be unable to tell you why despite they know it sounds weird.

> I know it's just a word-for-word translation, but the latter seems more natural, and the former unnecessarily verbose.

What you mean with "seems more natural", is that it sounds closer to what you are accustomed to in your own language. French is generally more verbose than English, especially in usual written form.

Now, as your "why" is nontheless completely legitimate, here is one explanation .In the case of "sa bibliothèque et la sienne", unlike in English which insist on the possessor (his/her takes the gender of the one who owns the object), French insists on the possessed (sien/sienne takes the gender of the object which is possessed, and every substantive have a gender). So would you translate "her library and his" in the same way, you would end up with the very same translation "sa bibliothèque et la sienne". On the other hand "sa bibliothèque à elle et sa bibliothèque à lui" would preserve the information of who owns each library.

Would you really mind to comes that is as close as possible to the original prosody, you might use "sa bibliothèque à lui, et elle la sienne."
We've been there before and history is just repeating itself because people are not insisting on decentralised technology and open standards. They've forgotten (or have never known) the dangers of lock-in and are giving in to the allure of fancy web services. So we will burn ourselves again, until it becomes untenable, and then we will go into another cycle of decentralisation.
Very clunky feeling. I like the looks (although takes time to get used to), but even animations such as window resize stuter.
https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/
I've used Hugo for my very small, rarely updated, personal blog, and I really like it. Not sure how it works for larger scale websites.

Now, I'm surprised Markdown is often chosen over Asciidoc. Especially for larger website like KDE.org; it seems you'd want to use a markup language that is more standardized than MD.
I think that's a sign that each of us has nuanced views!

'Extremist' is a bit of a slippery fish; I can't imagine calling something with even 10% support 'extremist'. If I had to draw a line, it would probably be that the sum of all 'extreme position support' would have to be less than 5% for a given subject. That is not to say that positions with >5% support are necessarily correct or conscionable.
Liberals are so scared of the truth always that their first instinct is to censor information. That is what scares me.
I'm bummed it requires OS X / Windows, and does not have a Linux option. Hopefully there is a future that has a Linux version.
http://www.3dbenchy.com for more info. I have a benchy shirt from there and I love it!
Ironically, Daytona was actually one of our downfalls or at least a thorn in our side. Sega had the license to the Daytona name and usage for electronic games and that’s one of the most well-known tracks and events. We had every other Cup and Indy circuit, but couldn’t get Daytona.

(For our in-house racing series, we had a “Florida” circuit that was the first and middle race in the schedule. For some reason, it was surprisingly close to Daytona International Speedway in design.)

We’d have probably sold more boxes and surely would have gotten more online subs if we’d been able to offer Daytona. (Some of the Papyrus crew went on to form iRacing and they’ve got a great product over there; still no karaoke though...)
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> what percentage of users actually care about using the OSX dictionary while working? They took out a bunch of space to show a user using the dictionary for the word "reading" - a use case that likely doesn't resonate with 99.9% of their users.

Indeed, what a ridicolous example that is! I've not once used the built in dictionary on purpose, only clicked it by mistake. And they chose the word "reading" to highlight some sort of usefulness?

I love Sketch and am a paying user with our company, but this article and discussion does not leave me hopeful for a bright future.
DK. Maybe it's a beta users as QA thing. After everything smooths-out, a more enterprise-ready version will appear or a price tag will be added.
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tl;dw - I can get five 1 Gbps network interfaces using an Intel I340-T4 PCIe NIC, but I can only get a maximum of 3.06 Gbps throughput using all five interfaces at the same time.
I'm probably going to go down with you; but can you elaborate on that a little?
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Same story with SpaceChem for me. I played it for the first time a couple of months ago. Played for an hour. Spent most of the time optimising, beat all my friends' scores, quit and vowed never to touch it again.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926214 for previous related discussion.
You can't even edit your own applets right? Like, you create an applet, hit save, and then it's set in stone. Can't modify it, you'd just have to make a new one. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

If that's true, no way I'm paying $2/month for that. I'm moving to Autocode.

Edit: OK I see I can still edit RSS applets after they're created. Still doesn't seem worth keeping the service.
Finish a landing page.

ps.
I saw this question in lobste.rs and I was very attracted to a community that shares like that... but I don't know anybody to let me in their walled garden :'-D
It might well be appropriated for the former...
> NumFOCUS found I violated their Code of Conduct (CoC) at JupyterCon because my talk was not “kind”, because I said Joel Grus was “wrong” regarding his opinion that Jupyter Notebook is not a good software development environment

Wow.
The Supreme Court is not prohibited from overturning existing precedent. They just generally choose to operate under a doctrine that says they should try to avoid overturning precedent. Lower courts are more formally bound by precedent from higher courts, but their rulings as constrained by precedent can be appealed up to the level(s) that are empowered to overturn the relevant precedent.
Uber once switched Postgres->MySQL because of human error and polytics for “taking remediation action”.
Wondering this too. It seems to compete with some Azure AI services so my feeling is that either there's a gotcha, or it won't last long. Hopefully I'm wrong.
Right, but what's in the doTick of a conveyor belt cell? Presumably it would look something like:

if nextCell.isEmpty():
moveContentsToNextCell()

But what happens when you have A connected to B connected to C and A and B have items? It depends upon the execution order of A and B's doTicks(). If A's runs first then B is still full and so A can't advance its contents. If B's runs first, then it passes its contents to C and then can receive from A when A runs.

You might put the entities into a graph, order them by their connections and run the doTicks in the right order. But you can't do that if there are loops in the conveyor belts (which Factorio handles, at least). I haven't come up with a trivial modification of this scheme to handle these problems. Do you have to do multiple passes until everything has gotten a chance? Or maybe a priority queue? I'm not sure. And what if the loop is entirely full? It should advance all the contents one square but may instead get jammed.
Came in the comment to say exactly the same.
It could be a title about the blog site .
The Supreme Court can overturn precedent. For example, Plessy v Ferguson (which held that segregation was legal) was overturned by Brown v Board of Education (which held that it was not). More recently, South Dakota v Wayfair directly overturned Quill v North Dakota in holding that states can directly charge sales taxes on internet purchases from out-of-state businesses.
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The climbers would don their Green Boots in hopes of meeting the God at the top.
No catch! We are first and foremost trying to make this technology accessible to as many people as possible, and we want to grow an ecosystem around it. Business models around that can come later.
Where to? China, Europe? I assume the tax is on capital gains and income taxes.

The US has some of the highest salaries worldwide, yet is still lagging to other nations in terms of wealth tax. Also, they cannot escape the US gov. if they have foreign assets either.
> those predictions seem like they could be done by throwing darts at a dart board

They are. They're made by throwing 40,000 darts at a dart board. 40,000 simulations of the election based on the polls, historical trends, demographics, and more.

The real threat, the real reason why the 2016 election was mostly mis-called, is when the polls themselves make mistakes in a common way. In 2016 it was education that wasn't factored strongly enough.

The models can be run on past elections and polling + data before those elections. That's how the develop the models.
we - https://numfocus.org/community/people
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Most lawyers can barely manage Microsoft Word print to PDF.
Returning profits to shareholders was the historical default.

It's only recently that companies have decided that pursuing endless (and often pointless, see Google) expansion is better than paying dividends, and generally this behavior is mostly tech companies.
One thing I thought of when I saw the demo video, that is probably on the team's radar:

There would be a lot of cool ways to improve the model by giving feedback, either showing training images where the model is uncertain, or some more advanced explanations for classifications flagged as incorrect, in order to guide the user to gather the training data that can improve it.

And possibly providing a summary of where it knows it works well.

There are a lot of benefits there, both for improving models people are building but also to help users understand why their model is performing as it does.
I don't think this article provides strong evidence that they are well calibrated on the presidential election specifically (sample size N=3), or that they are correctly accounting for rare black swan events, but it does seem to imply that the criticisms about "538 claims victory no matter what because they always have non-zero probabilities" are oversimplified.
3rding the above desire.
I read that as Uber discovered their code relied on MySQL default case insentivity. Migrating to Postgres might have been tricky as collation is a very recent addition in Postgres.
Thank you very much Aldipower! I am one of the designers from the Lobe team here speaking. This is what we strived for when we designed the website, and to be honest, when we designed the product, too, so I am really happy it came across this way.

In fact, our process for every feature we work on is the same—we start thinking about it with the way users are going to learn about it in mind, that allows us to simplify the way we talk about it and massage the messaging as much as possible, so when we have to talk about it externally, it's so tested that it just comes natural to us, and hopefully to the world.
There are commercial "puffers" that work by presence, no need for OpenCV
This blog post is unsigned. They should have put their names on it.
"HTTP servers will often support compressing the response, but almost never do they allow compressing the request body"

What doesn't have great support for Content-Encoding headers?
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Or by other metric 2.75% of the population. Sounds less scary.

And by cases per million USA is better than Israel and Belgium, in the same ballpark as Spain, 20% worse than France and twice of UK. Make what you want out of it.

But to me it seems that the virus has its own trajectory in every region and government policy is not that major factor.
> Worries me that with post-smartphone technology it’s more valuable for companies to remove interoperability than to foster it.

I've been in this position before. We wanted to open up our APIs, encourage integration with 3rd-party tools, and make our product as open as possible.

Good intentions, but the unintended consequences are significant. We expected the openness to drive more sales, improve customer satisfaction, and generate more goodwill around our product.

In reality, less than 1% of our customers used the API at all. A portion of those who did were the most demanding customers we had, constantly complaining on social media that our API didn't support everything they wanted from day 1. Ironically, the most vocal API-using customers were more negative than positive for us. The extreme fringes of the DIY hacker communities can get very entitled and ugly.

Creating and maintaining the API was more work than we anticipated. With every new feature we had to make the decision to exclude it from the public API, or spend 50-100% more time integrating it into the next public API release cycle.

Overall, it doesn't make business sense to create an API if it will only be used by <1% of your customers. The only time an API makes sense is if the API will really, truly, genuinely be used by a significant portion of your customer base.

As techies, it's easy to forget that tools like IFTTT aren't mainstream outside of technical products. They're actually extremely obscure for the vast majority of the general public.
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Thanks for catching this! We're on it.
"But in terms of making sense of black holes, this is at most the end of the beginning. Theorists still haven’t mapped the step-by-step process whereby information gets out. “We now can compute the Page curve, and I don’t know why,” said Raphael Bousso at Berkeley."

So it does not seem that the physicists fully understand their calculation results either.

Edit: here's the arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11977
A CoC is exactly as effective as the leadership that writes & enforces it. Sounds like the Board wasn’t happy with how this was enforced, so they stepped in.

Good on them. That said, maybe, uh, try and train your folks if you want them to enforce things like that.
> In FPTP, the candidate with the most votes just wins, even if that is only 15%. A second round for the two most popular candidates is still better than that.

In practice, most US elections are preceded by explicitly partisan primaries, and that's the status quo you should be comparing against.
I read this in earnest and think it's pretty cool. I really like Bryan Cantrill.

I couldn't fully grok the flow between ideation and prediscussion. I found that a little "fine grained". My understanding was hindered by the typos in the ideation section.
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I looked into moving a static sites from Hugo to Zola a while back, but decided against it because the Zola creator feels very strongly that URLs should never include dates -- to the point that they will not include the option of doing so in Zola [0].

[0]: https://github.com/getzola/zola/issues/635#issuecomment-5245...
and discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926214
"now they have to know enough about candidates to rank them"

If you don't know enough about the candidates to know which you prefer over others, why are you voting?
An interesting thing to think about is if they would apologize if this wasn't published in a blog and discussed online.

Let's say Jeremy just walked away quietly in disgust and didn't say anything publicly. What would have they done? I would guess that they would have chucked it under "We did a great job enforcing the code of conduct. Problem solved".
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They caused a lot of grief to a particular person. It is only appropriate to sign their apology with their own names rather than a "committee", don't you think?
You're welcome to find a platform that does that. Perhaps unfortunately for you, I, like most users, prefer the platform to handle it for me, because I don't want to sift through garbage.

> We have a model for this already, it's called "safe search"

An interesting position, keep in mind that many people consider the act of ordering to be a form of censorship. That is, it is "censorship" if a site is pushed to the second page of the Google search results. You can't opt-out of that.
This is a good response as far as the actual process goes, but it doesn't really do anything to address the claims that "There were two totally different Codes of Conduct with different requirements linked in different places" and "I was held to a different, undocumented and uncommunicated standard"
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I don't mean this as an attack, but I'm guessing you haven't been harassed/given unwanted attention at a conference.

It's easy to see codes of conduct as draconian or unnecessary if you can't empathize with the people they're designed to protect. I'm not saying the CoC system is perfect or that there aren't false positives, but your statement here is _dramatically_ privileged.
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Genuinely curious and admit I don’t understand this technology fully but if the main use case is verifying something Why can’t people vote using their phones and results be instantaneous.

Asking as the us election is approaching and we know it’s going to be a shitshow and this is if we are lucky. Else it will be something .. well let’s not go there.
Since Medium is uppercased but none of the rest of the title is, it implies as much.
(IANAL. As I understand it,) Precedent is generally followed unless there is a difference of circumstance, which could include changing cultural mores.

The most recent U.S. Supreme Court nominee briefly talks about some of the nuances related to precedent here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlchBfW036s

The (old) British legal scholar William Blackstone dives into it in his work "Commentaries of the Laws of England" (Introduction - Section 3) if you want a more thorough understanding of the foundation of precedent in common law.
That's a pretty negative view - never try anything that isn't sure to work out? Am I understand the argument properly? We'd still all be living in Europe (or Africa!) if that was the way folks always decided.
We are working on adding more project templates in the future, and Lobe is designed upon the idea that machine learning should be made easy—no matter the problem type you are facing.
When I saw that this will be the first RCV Senate election, I was so happy. It is a close race, with great potential for a 3rd party influencing the outcome. This is exactly where RCV is the right way to tally the votes.

Interesting bit is that RCV was implemented as a result of Maine ballot initiative in 2016, but it took years to actually implement it because of the lawsuits.

The politicians fought hard against it: the people's vote was repealed by Maine legislature right away. In 2017 voters had to vote on it again, and overruled the repeal.

Maine is viewed as a testbed: if RCV works there, it could be the model for the nation. It is on the ballot for congressional elections in Massachusetts right now.