skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wish a day could go by where i don’t here from a weinstein about how they are being silenced
Isfreenodedeadyet – Tracking Freenode to Libera.Chat Migration
This is not an issue around the safety of Ivermectin, as it is an incredibly well-known drug that is now off patent.

This is a discussion around efficacy.

It is similar to the MD asks around using a Zpak for Covid.
Javadoc seems very restrictive in terms of user interface, search etc., It is also not interactive. Hence, looking for something better.
The value proposition of irccloud is that you only need that one client. Among other things. Seriously doubt people will see freebie’s bouncer service as an alternative at all.
Until we live in a post-scarcity world how is it a choice? There simply are not enough resources. You can forcefully confiscate and redistribute every penny the "rich" have and nothing would change.
To be frank, if people do not want to talk about something they will flag it to death. Just the way of the world.
Sorry to be Butlerian about it, but "conversing" with machine simulacra disrespects me, the customer.

Someone should deploy a voice-producing AI to interface with companies' voice-processing AIs so I can order from the command line or from an app.
What is this slander? That is a completely separate topic, one which wikipedia cannot do justice in a paragraph, and neither can you. Second, the tweet is about Brett's censored video, not Eric. Watch the video.
I’ve worked at the same company for nearly 20 years. I’ve had precisely 0 lunch and hallway conversations in all of those years. Lunch time is when I go work out. If I’m not working out, I’m sitting at my my desk working. Socializing is for non-work hours. However, I’ve learned a lot more about coworkers (some of whom I’ve worked with for more than 10 years) during the pandemic from talking at the beginning of zoom calls waiting for everyone to show up.
That's part of it, and may be the most important thing for Freenode, but is the self-hosted and non-centralized part really lost on HN readers?
It seems to be a chicken and egg situation.

Enterprise software seems to be software that users can be forced to use (vs. software that they use if they like it).

If users can be forced to use it, the creators don't need to optimize on usability.
Ya, it's total bologna. Insurance covers stupidity as well as acts of god unless specifically excluded otherwise.
Heh..I actually did the long distance thing for BBSs with my lil C64 and a 300 baud modem. QuickMail with BlueWave offline reader, and TradeWarz2000! Heaven! :-)

I don't remember having to call long distance for an ISP though - dial up/shell ISP's sprang up in every lil nook and cranny :-)
No one is paying for studies where there is no money to be made later. It's a chicken and egg problem in a way. Ivermectin is cheap and off patent.
> That's antithetical to the idea of self-hosted, private chat networks which irc allows for.

It seems odd to hold both the “we should use de-centralized (or less centralized) systems” and “users MUST use these systems and no others” at the same time.

People find utility in IRCCloud - I know I did (when I used it) as it helped me keep up + provided a good mobile experience on top of that. IRCCloud existing doesn’t take away from those who wish to connect directly or use their own bouncers.
So they were very much interested in what you did when not at work : they wanted you to come in at work.
1. There's no patent on Ivermectin. (Correct me if I got it wrong) 2. Merck has announced an agreement with US gov for 1.7 mln courses of anew antiviral treatment for $1.2 bln. Also they have no real argument against IM:

> No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies;
No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease, and;
A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210609005142/en/Mer...

https://mobile.twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/140264794837...
Sure, but I am more interested in this idea of whether alchemy is a fundamental and substantial part of Taoism, and then also the question of whatever negatives may come with that (if it is actually true), is Taoism in the aggregate net beneficial to humanity, or not. I'm curious if you have any thoughts on the matter.
I think the social, rather than economic aspect is the most ardent.

Whether it's ubi or some other policy, a lot of people's immediate concern is that it'll engage poor people's laziness. Reminds me of all those "how to run a household" manuals from the 19th century. Very classist instinct,imo.

Burrito price inflation or even government costs are secondary. The suspicion that the poor are lazy and must be kept in line is primary.. often.
In 100 years, $600 billion market cap is going to be more common due to inflation. I think this way of setting the limit could be really good for future generations.
This is why we're really very lucky, IMO: We have two companies doing both, right now. We have an $800 device for the "high" end, and a cheaper device to get the word out. The timing seems better than if it had been one or the other.
really fun write up, lots of little details!! I was pretty shocked by the lag!

> From the time Profile’s system received camera-position information to Unreal’s rendering of the new position on the LED wall, there was about an 8 frame delay.

wowzer that seems like a lot!

in season two the ilm team developed their own rendering technology, supposedly. I wonder how much if any improvement they got on latency.
Neither is Google's, their marketing to the contrary. Installing another app store on their phone OS (which has no competition) requires several steps involving disabling so-called security protections and then side-loading the store. Search is largely protected by the fact that every business must do business with Google if they're to have any customers at all, etc.

Obviously, physical infrastructure is a bit harder to switch, but I have three major wireline ISPs here, four major wireless ones, and I believe two satellite services are an option too. Meanwhile, most Google services have no meaningful competition that isn't incredible niche.
Adding one random bit increases the entropy by a bit because there are now two possible messages - your message with a 0 or with a 1. Add a bunch of noise and you add a bunch of bits; entropy is average bits per message.
On the front page for a few minutes and then presumably flagged? (It’s now gone.)

Seems like maybe these are things HN also doesn’t want to admit about the poor.
Imagine working for SonyBMG and needing to put music on their site and you had to avoid the copy protection lol
"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China."

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
All these protocols for treating disease was changed for this virus. Patients were banned from taking HCQ in the state. I know several this happened too.

Pretending the system is working as intended is a farce.
It is hard to come up with a good framework for this: this is a classic exploration (possibly effective and cheap remedy) versus exploitation (known remedies that are really mostly unavailable to the developing world) mechanism.
In general, even there exploitation mechanism has been questionable for many things COVID-related (debate around making), and the establishment flip-flipping on the lab leak theory doesn’t inspire confidence.
What you're missing is that Ivermectin is decades old and off patent so anyone can make it cheap. Merck is against it because they are working on a new drug that they'll have a monopoly on. Typical of big pharma.

Why are people blindly accepting what big pharma says when it comes to Covid, as though the industry has suddenly turned a new leaf?
You are correct. It's about choices, and the fact of irccloud not having the same choices a proprietary protocol/client vendor would have available to hurt users.
LXQt. Lightweight. Gets out of the way. Functional. I'm not terribly into aesthetics.
I don't give a shit that you think it is immoral. I give a shit that you are labeling cultures as immoral and that they need to change to fit your belief system. And yes, I see that as no different than Fred Phelps' ideas.

And yes, there are far too many religious extremists in modern society. Maybe stop joining them.
More generally, it is supremely uncomfortable inside some people's bodies. I don't just mean someone with physical pain. Anxiety, depression and other disorders are a whole-body experience.
One of the features of arguments for “ethical” treatment of animals is that they are often so unethical. For example, it is often argued that animal research is unnecessary because computer models are sufficient. Of this misleading article that conflates animal research with animal testing. It turns out that living this are complicated, and how they react to chemicals is largely impossible to predict. And humans still die of disease, and are interested in curing those diseases. And, we really don’t think that experimenting on humans first to answer basic biological questions, when almost identical processes occur in rodents, is reasonable. So we learn things first in animals. It’s fine to say that many drugs fail to meet expectations when tested in humans, but pretty much everything a physician learns about metabolism in a biochemistry course was worked out in rats or mice, and most of those things were never validated in human tissues because the human tissue is not, and should not be, available. And patients are better served by doctors familiar with biochemistry.

One might argue that since we know so much, we have learned enough and further research in animals is unnecessary (or can be modeled). But while we now know most of the components of the body (at least those encoded by the genome), we are spectacularly ignorant of what those parts do, how they interact, and how those interactions respond to environmental changes (such as disease and drugs). And we can only explore those questions in animals.
Garbage sure, as the many testimonies from doctors all around the world that say it works spectaculary.
Big Pharma is running the show so no one is going to finance fancy double blind RCT´s.
It´s completely crazy to ignore treatments for C19, this disease is easily treatable on symptom onset.
Unlike 2A or LGBTQ Rights, you've agreed to your wage.
From my perspective, I was in SWE at Apple for over a decade, their documentation started going downhill as iOS development ramped up. By the time they got to the yearly release cycle for macOS and iOS documentation was an afterthought. Most was generated with doxygen from inline docstrings.

The reason I think the quality and quantity dropped was the internal schedules barely (or don't) leave enough time for the engineering work so there's very little time available for high level documentation. Internally tons of "documentation" existed as Radar comments or exchanges on internal mailing lists. Maybe a group's wiki had some crystallized documentation or high level architectural descriptions but good luck accessing it from outside that org. My favorite was some discussion about overall design or architecture that got the "let's take this offline" where all the helpful details ended up shared in an in-person meeting.

The internal secrecy and rapid development pace made it really difficult to get good overviews of technologies internally. I really sympathize with outside developers trying to cobble together an understanding of something where the documentation sucks or is missing.

The DocC tooling isn't going to be anymore effective than doxygen or other auto generated documentation without good architectural documentation. A function definition is nice but knowing you need to decombulate a frobnob before snizzlizing or that decombulation can only safely be done on the main thread is often more important. I can read a function signature but I can't necessarily know all the keys that go into some configuration NSDict passed into it.

I hope the situation improves if the DocC tooling lowers the friction for writing documentation. It sucks having to mix a WWDC presentation, sample code, and iffy docs into a semblance of usable architectural documentation.
That wasn't how Robert Glover described it. Quoted from his website:

Who is a Nice Guy?

* He is the relative who lets his wife run the show.

* He is the friend who will do anything for anybody, but whose own life seems to be in shambles.

* He is the guy who frustrates his wife because he is so afraid of conflict that nothing ever gets resolved.

* He is the boss who tells one person what they want to hear, then reverses himself to please someone else.

* He is the man who lets people walk all over him because he doesn't want to rock the boat.

* He is the dependable guy at work who will never say “no,” but would never tell anyone if they were imposing on him.

* He is the man whose life seems so under control, until BOOM, one day he does something to destroy it all.

----------------

This is very different from someone who does someone else a solid, and then that person "owes him one". Someone gets you free tickets to the game, and 3 months later you get them an introduction that helps them out. It's not a 1:1 thing obviously, but there's an expectation of loose reciprocity over the years.

In all relationships you have to be on the giving part at least some of the time, otherwise you're just a user. And if you're on the giving part all of the time, you're a doormat. Both are unhealthy.
You do realize Freenode, Libera, etc, all the big networks, are not self hosted, and that all traffic goes through them, right?
Hollywood became the unofficial propaganda arm of the U.S. military
I find these experiences like a video game. And since I have to take ketamine for my depression it sometimes provides entertainment to distract me from the other side-effects.
From your own source:

> Weinstein received his PhD in mathematical physics from Harvard University

How is that "not a physicist"?

I'm not saying that his theory is valid, mind you -- I don't know anything about it, nor am I myself qualified to judge that.

But he clearly is a qualified physicist.
"It was a bad trip because the fractal nature of time implies that your life repeats itself infinitely many times (probably with the exact same details)."

This echoes Nietzsche's idea of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same, which he thought would in fact be terrifying to the ordinary man, but the overman could live their life in such a way that the infinite repetition would be fully and unreservedly welcome.
This is an important description, as when you think of a chemical creating impairment, it is essentially adding noise to signals in your brain, and a lot of the geometric and fractal artifacts we see resemble noise artifacts you would get from interfering with other analogue signals.

Given your brain takes sensory signal input and coheres it, impairing that ability is going to create signals-based feedback that is described in information theory and signal processing, which if there is any periodic sampling going on on the coherance layer, you're going to get shape artifacts that are a function of that period. It's essentially 1/f noise and the experience of "more" information in a hallucinatory state is really just noisy information, like feedback on a TV. (It implies your brain has a clock cycle, and probably something like an NTP service.)

Imagine your TV had worked perfectly for your entire life and the first time you experienced its signal was bad, but you didn't realize there was a world in which that signal could not exist, so it would be totally mind blowing and you might experience it as a rift in reality. It would demand the question, if the people on TV aren't the substrate of our shared reality, and they are only representations transmitted by signals our minds are cohering, what else isn't necessarily real?

You'd tell other people that you had an experience where there is something else, a true substrate of reality where the televisions weren't coherent and real, which seems impossible, but if you've experienced it, you know. Suddenly, the televisions and they things they say are fallible, but there is still a you without them, and one that is not bound to the identity you see reflected in what they broadcast and tell you, because when the TV signal fed back on itself or echoed with delay, now you know there is something behind it all. It seems profound, but it's really just the first time your TV didn't work because something had impaired the signal. This is what I think hallucinogens are: noise on your sensory channels that reminds you the signals you use to cohere your experience exist in a substrate, which is just a mundane fact and necessarily physically true, and "you" are more than what your manage to cohere into a narrative from your sensory input. Some people believe a substrate or perception of something "else" is inconcievable because they have never experienced jitter in their coherence cycles, and once you do it seems like a really big deal, but really, it's not, and most of us just go back to chopping wood and carrying water.
But math isn't comprehensive in belief . It's universally true but only applied narrowly
It’s not my intention to accuse or condemn you, in that while I do dislike the direction you’ve chosen, I don’t think you are being intentionally or unintentionally malicious. It is also hard not to love the tecnhical work you do and the way you’ve not only struck out in the corporate networking badlands but also taken up the mantle of Hamachi, which has lain unclaimed for way too long.

You’re absolutely brilliant (like Cloudflare), your goal does not seem evil (similar to that of Cloudflare), neither do the consequences of achieving it (somewhat less like Cloudflare), and you haven’t done outright evil things like patent clever but fundamentally simple tricks (have I mentioned I’m conflicted about Cloudflare?). And when all is said and done, you do have to pay your bills, and only you can say what works and what does not in that respect.

So I applaud you when you say, loudly and honestly, that the goal of your licensing model is to pay for the development by making yourself an essential part of it. I believe you when you say your work couldn’t exist otherwise. But my mental model of (dev– and knowledge-of-humankind–centric) open source (unlike that of user-centered free software) is that its very essence is the original developer making themselves unessential or at least not using legal threats to preserve their special position.

Thus I am explicitly not saying that your non-open-source approach is evil—that would be unjustified purism; morality judgments are difficult and best not employed as one-sided proclamations. I am not expecting that you will go home ashamed or mend your dastardly ways, because you have nothing to be ashamed of, your ways are not dastardly, and I have no idea how you could mend them and still survive. I am saying that your non-open-source approach disagrees with the very core of the open source idea as I best understand it, not on a purist technicality but in a fundamental way.

Bruce Perens co-founded the OSI. He seems to have given up on the idea of open source in the age of mainframe providers wielding armies of star programmers, and probably would not have any issue with your strategy. I am younger and have not given up yet, so I look upon your strategy with sadness and a longing for a better world.

Bruce Perens is much smarter than me in more ways than one.
No, that's not it. An actor must be able to seize assets from another actor, under certain circumstances. That can't be done with smart contracts because of the security model of blockchains.
Wartime Hollywood
Does anyone know what exactly was said in the original video?
Supressing a safe & effective drug is a crime against humanity, there is no other way to qualify it.
I honestly don’t understand the point you’re making. Obviously I don’t think fatherless households give rise to paraplegics. Lol.

If you can explicitly state the ‘metrics under discussion’ I’ll give an honest response a go, but I really don’t know what you’re saying here.
Right. And this would be so easy to fix too.

a) crawl your own documentation and find dead links.
b) monitor 404 errors and track down the source (via referer headers, etc.).
c) ask the user on the 404 page what they were hoping for or provide a search menu, record it, and have someone manually review.
d) add a redirect management engine, so you can redirect links that you can't/won't ever fix.
Not everyone is going to be a billionaire, but that doesn't have to mean some people can't access basics like housing.

Our high rates of homelessness are rooted in housing policy and most people don't want to hear that. The narrative that gets promoted is that it's their fault and homeless people get labeled as "junkies and crazies."

Which doesn't even hold water, logically speaking, because most addicts don't want to be addicts and trying to break an addiction is quite challenging and if insanity boiled down to a personal choice, people would choose to be sane. People don't want to be mentally ill. That's not how that works.
They are not equivalent, though.
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How does it not help much? I’ve probably got a total of less than $2k invested into PlayStations and games in my entire life. If I were to add up all the electronic devices I’ve purchased in my entire life that could have been Sony but weren’t it would probably be pushing 6 figures.
What bonafides are needed to think ?
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It does take away from users who want to directly join a private channel. As soon as a channel is joined by an irccloud user, that channel becomes transparent to irccloud, a big, opaque, centralized service who is a giant attack surface for broadly spying on irc servers.
Thanks YouTube for liberating us from having opinions. Imagine how dangerous that could be!
> So they were very much interested in what you did when not at work

That does not follow.
Ironically, you've said something worth remembering.
Same here. Give me cloudy and cool over sunny and hot every day of the year.
Other explanations could include, plain madness, delusions of importance, etc.
You legit called 1000s of people in the industry to ask them what they think about the 100 lines meme. Great, appreciate your effort there. /s