skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A devil's advocate:

Giving access to nation's healthcare data for statistical and ML uses can speed up development for ML in diagnostics by a huge amount.

Once you scrub the source data to remove birth dates, report creation dates & zip codes, it should be sufficiently anonymized to be traceable back to the individual. We can enable some level of differential privacy on top as well.

ML's 2 big leaps of the last decade 2012 CNNs and 2017-18 pre-trained transformers both came off the back of a leap in data availability (Imagenet for CNNs and Scraping the entire internet for BERT).

Individual hospitals and the startups they bankroll have their inhouse ML teams, but closed data and unwillingness to disseminate has made the field move at a snail's pace. Additionally, Generalizability of any kind won't be achieved until the data gets scaled up past small geographic pockets and patient sets. This is especially true in medicine which has a long-tail problem. Lastly, aggregating data together lends a natural anonymity to each user who's data is shared within the dataset.

IMO, disease diagnostics is one the most ideal castings for a problem in ML. A purely technical trade where data and decisions have a degree of exactness and concepts like conditional probability are a natural fit. The only problem is that the pipeline is largely still analog. This means that the data collected about the doctor's diagnostic processes still comes out incomplete and privacy protections make sure it stays on a scale small enough to make ML difficult.
Three thin.

"'...perhaps to other social factors such as embarrassment.'"

There is a lot of interesting philosophy around this. In 2019 Partially Examined Life [1] did an interview with Francis Fukuyama on his book "Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (2018)"

I was reading the HN post on research from Newcastle University on eating with your mouth open published in the Guardian. A HN user shared their own violent thoughts in reaction to this behavior. What's more, this recalled for me a former friend who is from Newcastle, who I'd very much like to punch in the nose. Though, not really. (I'm not a violent person, I just grew up in the 80s when the answer to everything was a puch in the nose. I liked the thought because it seemed ... suited to the medium?)

Tie it up in a bow and throw it all away. That's part of human nature. One word in this article was sufficent to bias me against it, where another time I would dismiss it as Twitter-quality research and move on.

Then I read this article on Twitter-quality research. I'm a proponent of words matter. Take this passage from the article:

“The difference between these results and our prior work on subtle accuracy nudges highlights how complicated the relevant psychology is,” Rand says

Complicated or Complex? Recall the maxim: a Swiss watch is complicated. A cockroach is complex.

Really? Do researchers read other people's research? Complicated-Complex distinction. It's all the rage. This research is $#!t. Frack it! AGGGG!

[1]: https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2019/02/11/ep209-1-fukuyam...
Yes. And to think otherwise is acting entitled. GitHub is a for-profit company providing you services for free. It is outrageous to think that they must keep your repository up that is advertising a competitor. The entitlement from the tech scene honestly just stinks.
If that becomes that standard to judge by, then there will be really bulky chargers from China containing lead weights with inadequate circuitry.
Is irc the primary means of communication for all these projects?
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You get charged the equivalent of your salary for the missed days of work.
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And Christel Dahlskjaer was (still is, the CCO) an employee of Lee's company, Private Internet Access, when she sold Freenode Networks to Freenode Limited.

It wasn't hers to sell, even in her capacity of head of Freenode Staff at the time.
Depends where you live I suppose. I am in Australia where typically you need 20%. At 10% you need to purchase special insurance or get a guarantor.

I am surprised at how crazy low those US ratios are. Thats just bonkers.
Does anyone have a decent summary of the entire history of this? I am not really part of the open source world, but from all the activity this seems like a very significant moment.
The channels being 'taken over' are the channels that were telling people to use the other network. There's no point in Freenode existing if all the channels point to some other place.

I support Freenode's decision.
I’ve seen people claim that, but the closest I’ve actually seen from Musk is this tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12179918536156774...

Do you have a better citation? Because loans are not feudalism — and if you want to insist they are, only Islamic Law jurisdictions (which bans interest rather than loans but eh) are non-feudal.
Yes, and it's annoying. It's pseudo-intellectualism that uses the tactic of confusion, of shifting the argument from its substance to deconstructing the discussion itself.

When that happens, declare victory and leave the conversation.
> 16. The Argument from Incredulity:

> This cynical fallacy falsely elevates the saying popularized by Carl Sagan, that "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof," to an absolute law of logic.

I have never heard anybody claim absolute logical validity for an argument like this. I think the author of this list mistakes other people's intentions and believes they are trying to argue by "absolute laws of logic" when they really aren't. Arguing by absolute logic is a game that can occasionally yield stimulating results, but enforcing the rules of this game isn't a constructive contribution in most conversations.
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Because the American citizenry has relatively little power over the actions of government in general. Thanks to a system of representative democracy, Americans can only really choose from a limited pool of politicians to influence the law-making process -- and there aren't any major politicians there which want to change copyright law (that I know of!).

The main alternative to engaging in electoral politics are protests, demonstrations, general strikes, etc.
Thanks for the post. It has been a while since I read about him.

Here is a modern book that gamblers like to read by another fascinating Mathematician Edward Thorp:

https://www.amazon.com/Beat-Dealer-Winning-Strategy-Twenty-O...
I don't know about that. Reality is strongly suggestive. (Of course you can argue that "reality" also is a figment of our imagination or, for example, it's not a thing in the first place, but I personally wouldn't go that far.)
You missed the part where all of the channels who moved were given reason to move.

Nobody makes like a tree and leaves unless they're just pissed off with the way things are now. People don't enjoy making work for themselves.

So no, Leenode wasn't meant to let their channels become pointers, they should have not taken several actions which caused Libera to need to exist in the first place.

The great thing is, the visitors are what make the communities on IRC, so if people want to move server, they just do, there's no need to even talk about it other than to inform visitors that Leenode is actively trying to prevent communities from notifying their users that they've left for greener pastures.

I don't really care to get involved with the whole debacle, I'm just someone who goes to odd communities for specific subjects from time to time. Other than dropping my account on Leenode and recreating it on Libera, I'll just update my server URL and carry on with my life.
I hadn't thought about network capabilities. If multiple, small pods could be sent every few minutes that's a game changer for sure!
It's unlikely to get several offers being in negotiation at the same time. If you manage to do it it's obviously better, but hard to synchronize.
> Generally inflation is good for the poor and bad for the rich (generally pensioners and students), it's considered redistributive actually.

How so? Interest rates for student loan/mortgage debt always outpace inflation, and the poor don't usually have enough spare cashflow to invest in inflation-busting vehicles like the rich routinely do. Not to mention that while prices rise, minimum wages (and wages in general) usually remain frozen, so your purchasing power shrinks year-on-year without risky moves like changing jobs.
If we're talking the US, that law is for the benefit of the rich. In general, the interest won't exceed the standard deduction unless you've got a rather obscenely priced home.
Why leverage personal attacks? That's totally uncalled for.
The UK gave up the ability to do that when previous governments decided to integrate our economy with Europe and build the Channel Tunnel. Every day, huge numbers of trucks travel directly from Europe to the UK with their drivers carrying all kinds of goods, including critical stuff like food for supermarket shelves. You may recall that this was one of the reasons why Brexit was supposed to be so dangerous and impractical.
I left IRC almost a decade ago. Channels moving servers honestly, rarely happened in my day. The networks were all pretty much set up. You may get smaller communities changing from smaller networks but that was it and that was generally a friendly affair if it wasn't the channel was forced closed by the network admins.

Most of the channels moving have never moved before. And those that did, did 10-20 years ago. It is a rare event.
The Prince voluntarily pays income tax on all revenue from the estate.

lol, how magnanimous of him!
Hypocrisy is not unique to conservatives. All mainstream politics is hostile zero-sum competition over the allocation of resources. Maintaining a narrative facade of some kind of moral legitimacy for this process often requires some kind of internal narrative inconsistency.
Nah, it's a set of idiot trolls we've been dealing with for years - they've also been trying to spam libera in "support" of freenode but libera have people who know how to deal with IRC spam so it's not gone nearly as well.
Are there articles available that sums up "this Freenode drama"? I've just seen the headlines, and haven't really bothered before now that I see they are acting up as (even bigger?) assholes.
What do you think the first Mars colonies will be like? I bet living on an Siberian oil rig will be like a vacation compared to Mars, except you can't return to civilization if you've had enough.
On some Freenode channels I've seen the channel owners effectively ban/block all conversations before leaving. This would mean that even if people chose to stay on Freenode, they wouldn't be able to talk on channels dedicated to some projects at all. A lot of those channels got taken over and bans removed.
Hi beforeolives—

I like your breakdown, and I've observed similar things in my experience as an engineering focused data person! I've had many discussions with my colleagues about how to manage effectively these different blends of roles and skills.

I'm looking for someone for an engineering type of data role right now. Is there a way to get in touch with you about it?

Our product helps companies listen to their customers by unifying natural language feedback across various channels, applying signals using various natural language modeling techniques, then aggregating them to help teams deliver better outcomes using more relevant information.

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edit: forgot to share agreement for your breakdown
I fully expected some blockchain nonsense opening your link, I'm pleasantly surprised.

It seems like an interesting project but I wonder if it has any chance of reaching critical mass. The incumbents have no incentives to interoperate with such a protocol as far as I can tell.
Bingo, my rent is going up $100 bucks a month this year.
That's great until discord changes their business model and reduces or removes the free plan.
I had seen another platform doing this - https://kloudi.tech/

I am not related to them in any ways. This happen to remind me of that too.
Is there a way to get similar feel that slack has for irc? You know, half a gigabyte of client data, at least 1GB of ram usage, multiple processes, high cpu load?
The history of IRC, though, is full of network fork/splits when the network owner goes heavy-handed.
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> Unity has no official support for screenreaders or colorblind modes. Unreal has both. If an major game engine developer like Unity cannot be bothered to add support, can we really expect the little developer hacking away on some OpenGL side project to?

Games are special because the means of interaction is often a core part of the experience. An accessibility mode for a game can be a huge amount of work. Not to say that some people don't do that huge amount of work (which is great) but games lacking accessibility is no excuse to use game-like development practices to write apps that could otherwise be relatively easily made accessibile.
I don't understand. What stops people from switching to Slack from Discord or whatever?

Can people connected to Freenode join your channel on Libara? If not, what exactly is the difference?
The one not artificially kept alive by a foreign power through a puppet regime.
These lists get longer every time I see one. The first I saw in the 90s listed 12.
A SFF would do nicely. A NUC even more so, but is not really up to high workloads
Why not just buy a solid controller for your phone or tablet?

How could this hypothetical device possibly be better than an iPhone 12 Pro Max, Note, Galaxy S, etc?
What is your budget?

Do you have all the money for the project on hand already?
I personally wouldn't mind IRC (also) having some of those features, and a client with a more Discord-like UX for those that want it.

But I doubt you'll achieve that by single-handedly destroying one of the biggest IRC networks out there and basically guaranteeing folks won't want to work with you.
Freenode could have done things differently, 'channel founders' (as if that denotes some kind of status) could have done things differently.

Seems like one side provoked a fight, the other side responded, and now the initiators of the fight are calling foul.
> (Also this is why SF directors love transparent or "holographic" displays, because you can film the person looking at the screen and the thing being displayed at the same time)

I caught an episode of NCIS a few weeks ago and noticed they had a plexiglass screen up in the interrogation room cuz of covid.

But I also realized it let them get both characters' faces in the shot at the same time thanks to the reflection, despite sitting across the table from each other (and they of course framed everything to take advantage of this).

Same thing just 2020 version.
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magit runs git clone and such asynchronously. There's usable concurrency support in Emacs for things like network calls and external processes even though UI and pure elisp stuff is still single-threaded
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/covid-4/coronavirus-sey...

Stuff like this can still happen in a highly vaccinated population within a larger, widely un-vaccinated population.
Seems like I finally found some use for my CS:GO junk and selling them...

Might as well pick up reasonable device for some mobile use. It probably supports bluetooth stuff and steam controller, so shouldn't be too horrible experience.
This post convinced me: https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/judnlm...
I was inspired to write my thoughts about this: https://christine.website/blog/epilogue-2021-05-26
Not too long ago Slack supported IRC gateways, with limited features of course.
It's not stupid. They know what they're doing. Any more than driving all the nurses to quit is stupid.
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After reading some research papers, especially the ones about heterochronic parabiosis (when they connect the circulatory systems of a young and an old animal), it feels to me like "markers" is a kind of misnomer. They aren't markers, they aren't just signifying something — they're what drives the aging process in the first place, in a feedback loop. You can't explain those experiments otherwise. These, and also that when you transplant an organ from an old animal into a younger one, the organ adopts the age of its new host. There has to be something in the blood that tells the cells the age of the organism, and the cells then adjust their behavior accordingly.

So, the question becomes: what if instead of merely observing those markers, we actively remove them, or block the receptors they interact with?
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-bee... seems to have a pretty simple summary
No thanks, I’ll keep my gaming laptop. Far more portable than a desktop, lots of compute overhead, and I can use it for games. At home it’s basically a desktop with external keyboard and monitors.

Oh yeah, and when it’s not being used with the dedicated graphics card, it gets 6-9 hours of battery life.

Oh, almost forgot - it’s lighter and about the same size as my 2012 13” MBP.
They took over a bunch of channels just for having the word "libera" in the topic. The actual criteria are something more than that, because there are some channels that had it in their topic but didn't get taken over. But that's approximately what happened.
PIA was sold in 2019 and have explicitly said they have nothing to do with him anymore and have no idea wtf he's thinking.
that's one explanation but there is another that is relevant to this thread - Nintendo diverging from the USB C standard implementation. End of the day, standards exist for a reason and nintendo diverged from the standard

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-sw...

If the port fails open—meaning pins just don't make electrical contact—there's usually no real harm done. But if they fail short—meaning pins are bridged electrically to pins they have no business connecting to—you may easily overvolt a pin. Remember that 6V absolute maximum rating on the Configuration Channel of the Switch's USB-C PD chip? Well, it's only 0.5mm away from the VBus (main power line), which carries 15V.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/judnlm...
I wonder if it would have passed Apple's review process?
also, a community spread across two channels is more fractured than a community on one. Forcing users out of the old one is a good thing.
Well at least there's that.
And tell them how to register the nickname, and tell them how to log in, and tell them how to list rooms and join them. Then teach them about op codes.

(Lack of) Ease of use is a big reason for IRC's loss in popularity.
All taxes are passed on is a very simplistic view. Do I pass the taxes on to my employer when I negotiate salary? Probably to some extent, but this is like saying all cubes are squares and calling it good enough.

EDIT: typo
I appreciate your response, and would argue that the website is still lacking transparency.

As is theres no evidence that the org owns the domain, or that the org even exists.

Thats worrying, and if awareness was higher, its possible people wouldnt be migrating there - especially given the reason for the move in the first place.

I personally dont care for all this drama - I have a few small rooms on freenode, and am also looking to migrate - but I dont want to follow the drama...
Do you need JIT though? Does Xcode support inline ASM, or various compilers extensions that can read/write a cpu register?
What happens when those people have kids? Do the kids owe their soul to the company store?
Put in a bot that responds to every user who has spoken for the first time in X timeframe with NOTICE about moving to new location?
Have you checked out Thinkpad P15/P17? I can't speak to as to if and how (probably to some extent unless in ideal climate) they throttle, but generally Thinkpad P series are holding up pretty well (obviously at the cost of slimness). Can be configured with up to Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 16GB.

EDIT: Judging by notebookcheck, you should also check out HP ZBook Fury 15 G7, Thinkpad T15g, Dell Precision 7550, and MSI WS66.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-P15-Gen-1-lapt...
I checked it out on a map, it looks like it's on this side of the Urals by a pretty good margin, so I don't see how it's at all a stretch.
I'm not too surprised people spend time to express this point of view. I loved his channel but there was always something that felt a little off for me. One evening I launched a Google search wondering if I was the only one and found the subreddit. I stopped watching afterwards.
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It's an English word, you can listen to it here: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/libera
I think you will still need to be more specific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_in_the_Vietnam_War
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Isn't that what got the Prenda Law partners in hot water?
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For anyone out of the loop, "Liberia Chat" has nothing to do with Liberia (the country).

Also, I found it amusing when I typed "freenode" into the search bar, "freenode drama" was the first suggested phrase.

https://libera.chat/
At this point I would hope that App Store ingestion would filter for this.
This data will not be anonymized enough IMO. FTA:

"Data that directly identifies patients will be replaced with unique codes in the new data set, but the NHS will hold the keys to unlock the codes “in certain circumstances, and where there is a valid legal reason”, according to its website."
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>For software, there are quantifiable measures. As an example, there are some sorting algorithms that are objectively faster than others. For those systems that it matters in terms of risk, it probably shouldn't be left up to the subjective eye of an individual programmer, just like the spacecraft should rely on a technician's subjective opinion of that a bolt is "meh, tight enough."

Then you start having discussions about every algorithm being used on collections of 10 or 100 elements, it doesn't really matter to the problem to be solved. Instead the language's built in sort functionality will probably do here and increase readability, because you know what's meant.

Profiling and replacing the algorithms that matter is much more efficient than looking at each usage.

Which again brings us back to the general vs specific issue. In general this won't matter, but if you're in a real-time embedded system you will need algorithms that don't allocate with known worst case execution times. But here again, at least for the systems that matter, we have specific rules.
Because this whole thing is about one person being sh*tty?