skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things:

We probably only hear the stories where they succeed, or nearly so, which may be anywhere from almost all the attempts to only a tiny number.

Second, if this is a which hunt, then we should treat it as such and immediately lob accusations at those who start the accusations.
The article argues, and I agree, that a university is free to not invite someone if they view them as controversial. Where the problem really is is that they invited him and then retracted the invitation in response to a mob. The retraction is what makes this problematic.

EDIT: the other point that the article makes is that this professor's "controversial" views are held by upwards of 70% of the American public. The net result of applying this rule consistently would be that a strong majority of the American public cannot express their opinions on this subject because of a tiny vocal minority.
I don't really understand how terms like "moral" or "faithful" came to be adopted in mathematical parlance. I understand these words are intended to convey some technical meaning, but why muddy the waters between 'is' and 'ought'? As Hume recognized, reason only teaches us about the way things are, not the way they ought to be. What mathematicians do with that knowledge is in their own hands.
I still maintain that aside from limited use cases (usually adding some meta tags), anything semantic web was supposed to do is better handled by an api.
Twitter management stopped caring about free speech years ago. They are no longer the "free speech wing of the free speech party". Instead they actively promote a particular brand of US progressive politics, and ban anyone who steps out of line.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/twitter-steps-down-fre...
>This is marketing BS

I disagree.

>S3 buckets aren't vulnerable to ransomware but maybe your configurations are.

This is not just "correct" - it is CRITICAL to understand. The configurations are so complex, it is THE way people will get at your data.
I've thought a lot about mosquitos lately. I almost think our desire to escape them has been a driving factor in our advancement as a species.

I think one of the biggest advantages of moving to the moon or mars is never having to deal with mosquitos or rodents or cockroaches again.
Understanding Domain Driven Design with Some Pizza
Would love to learn more about the dapps you’re building. Any site or anything I can check out?
I don't know which vaccine each took. My dad's coworker had a stoke and died 2 days after getting the vaccine, two of my wife's brothers were the ones with heart issues. My daughter's bf's friends mom also had a stroke 2 days later. A friend now has tinnitus.

Not sure what else to tell you. The math suggests this is unlikely. But here it is.

Edit: also, nice edit changing it from "next I'll tell you that car accidents are marked as COVID deaths." I didn't say that and have no data on that so I appreciate you changing it.
I find it helpful to think of prestigious colleges as hedge funds with strong branding and a world class associate pipeline. The reason why they favor legacy students and jocks is that those are the people who are the most likely to write huge checks to their alma mater and otherwise act in its interests continually after graduation. Perhaps that will change, but it hasn’t yet. This professor advocating an end for legacy and athletics admissions is a direct attack on a wildly successful multi-billion dollar business model that’s lasted centuries and still going strong. I wouldn’t be surprised if whoever made this call is using the twitter mob as a convenient fig-leaf for chastising a boat-rocker.
Search for OS/400 language environments and TIMI.
Google is still the hottest place to work, closely followed by Facebook (whether HN crowd likes it or not). Just look where the best and brightest CS graduates from top schools go to.
It is also SO SLOW. It's so slow. Uploading images takes full seconds before they can be sent because Teams has to put them onto Sharepoint first (which itself is slow).

For those still on Teams, my condolences, here's a workaround: copy the image onto your clipboard and paste it into the textbox. It skips the uploading to Sharepoint, prevents the issue I described, and is sendable in milliseconds. Downsides: a. they're randomly ephemeral and sometimes just permanently disappear, b. no animated images - it'll just send the first frame of a GIF/APNG/etc.

And for those on macOS, that means you can get screenshots sent quickly. Ctrl-Cmd-Shift-3, Cmd-V into the text field. Send.
> Docker is for running applications

Yes but no. Docker is mainly used for its ability to build and reuse standardised containers. It’s very much a distribution mechanism (I mean that’s why it’s called docker). From other comments I get the feeling that NixOS could be used to build reproducible containers in a way that remind me of building tools like Bazel but it’s not entirely clear to me why you would chose to do that nor if it’s actually a goal of the product.
The activists who demanded this aren't the ones who need to be persuaded on climate change.

MIT just handed the center and right-of-center, full of actual climate skeptics who need to be persuaded, another cancel culture event.

Your whole post hinges on the assumption that the prospects of fighting climate change hinge on the approval of college town progressives. In reality, their approval is the least important thing.

Of course, if the lecture is really just pandering to that audience without any interest in the larger public, then what you say makes perfect sense. It's also in 100% agreement with original comment.

You're actually just agreeing with me and don't realize it because you're lost in your own sea of words.
I guess your eyes will love VR goggles where the eyes are always (un)adjusted at optical infinity.
Yeah this is an annoying bug. It seems related to resuming from sleep. For WSL 2 one workaround is to just restart WSL; you're effectively rebooting the VM.
Putin slashes Russia’s space budget
I don't care that they're rich.

I care that they have a monopoly and consolidate so much power that they can shift the balance for the interest of their stakeholders or lobbyists.
Humans have been territorial since before they were humans, so the term is describing an old (and useful) thing in a new, ugly way. Its nicer equivalent would be homophilia (fear of the other vs. love of the same) though I doubt that would catch on.
Thanks for highlighting this very important point

Such controls are mentioned in the article linked here and more so in the blog post detailing the work:
https://ermetic.com/blog/aws/new-research-the-urgent-threat-...

and even more so in another blog post going deeper into mitigation strategies:
https://ermetic.com/blog/aws/five-strategies-for-mitigating-...
Yeah, I am not a licensed Microsoft config guy whatsoever, but do know that Sharepoint can be configured to the moon and back. That was, after all, the reason my old org went with Teams over Slack.

So it's not hard for me to imagine that it could be set up in a way that causes this issue across discussions. Yuck.
That's cool, so it seems like chronos and kairos seem to respectively come from more objective and subjective sides of looking at things. Like comparing the concept of atomic time with concepts like "go time" or "high time" or even "Miller time".

The various definitions and examples seem to attempt to bring the term into objectivity by hinting at the clear and immediate downside risk of not paying due attention to kairos, but I wonder if there have been a lot of impatient people out there who have been frustrated with e.g. their elders advising more kairos-style heed be given and more waiting be endured, in vague, frustrating situations...
React does not seem fast in this benchmark https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2021/table...
Ever heard of iOS?

In any case, AOT and OS IPC cover most cases, welcome to UNIX pre-shared-objects.

In any case, Midori had another approach.
It’s really amazing and sad. I think the majority of users here are now 40+ and are too set in their ways to see anything different.
We already have done this over the last several centuries by defining the line between legal and non-legal speech. The point is the line is chosen to trade off these risks. There is no silver bullet but acting like there is, and that this debate is just beginning now, is fallacious.
How could you objectively measure the impact of social media, when pretty much everyone in that age group uses it. And those who don't, probably have factors not applicable to all. The very decision to abstain from social media may hint at a different neuronal setup/vulnerability.

If the research we got is the best we can realistically get, this author is making a dishonest and misleading argument.
I would say that the premise of those are quite different. While both are hobby OSes at this point, my impression is that Haiku is more of a "product" something that the developers want to provide to a general public. Serenity is written just to tickle to itches of the contributors, accepted by the judgement of Andreas. At least from the inception, I suspect that the OS was not meant to be used by people who also don't want to work on the code. But ofcourse motivations may change.

From a development perspective I think this leads to Serenity building just enough of a foundation for the application/feature someone want. When the ad-hoc code starts to smell, clean up and abstract. Then repeat.
We're on HackerNews - we can't "put aside the security practices of Discord".
Why wouldn’t you use traditional PKI for that? Ultimately it comes down to trusting a known authority and tamper-evidence could be provided at orders of magnitude less cost and greater reliability by either using a Merkle tree or notarization from a third-party.

As for the cynicism, note that this is an audience with deep technical knowledge and the ability to reason about systems, years into salespeople making big claims which have not been delivered. Given the conflicts of interest inherent to a system which requires outsiders to put fresh money in before insiders can cash out, skepticism seems warranted.
nature usually contain one science fiction in one issue
I, for one, am unconcerned that we don't live in a clockwork universe. Or, at the least, one so complex that the initial conditions can never be known. Because that leaves open the possibility that all isn't determined, and that we can finally take responsibility for our own actions.
Group affiliation is a decent heuristic. It helps you to know what to look for when identifying whether there are concessions made to forward a larger agenda concealed within the text.

I wouldn't dismiss the document out of hand by virtue of its author's social circles, but I also wouldn't say that suspicion is entirely unwarranted. Though the CFR is such a large organization, I would also be less immediately suspicious of its rank and file.
Ian Henry has, thankfully memorialized the learning process so that we can all readily rediscover it. https://ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-learn-nix/introduction/
The gap between white and Asian outcomes is due to immigration policies which make it easier for wealthy people to get in. The US imports rich asians who can afford to send their kids to MIT, the rich get richer ect. The gender pay gap is a different issue and doesn’t need to address immigration policy.
I am pretty sure the mob would go after the entire group: those who vote for it for voting for it, and those who didn't for being part of such a group.
> A lot of odd Nix hate in here, or at least extreme dislike.

I don't have any doubts about the likes of Nix or even other attempts at improving the reproducibility of building and installing packages being technically superior to what we have now in some ways.

But at the same time, you can't forget about people and in some ways the industry taking the path of least resistance whenever possible.

You want to introduce a good but somewhat complicated way to manage packages? People will simply use "apt" while its UI/UX/DX is easy to get a hang of.

People get sick of differences between environments and how hard it is to deal with everything from resource constraints, port binding, configuration management, persistent data handling etc. in *nix? Many of them will turn to shipping VMs, tools like Vagrant or more recently - Docker.

Thus, it stands to reason that for any tool to become popular amongst the "common folk", not just brave early adopters or very technically able people, the tool needs to be easy to use.

I guess that's also why i'd say that more people use Linux distros (GNU or otherwise) as opposed to something like the *BSD OSes, even if those also have some notable benefits in regards to stability, networking performance, in-tree development etc.
How to Survive Our Tragedy
> XKEYSCORE also allows analysts to look for the usage of encryption, the use of a VPN or the TOR network, and a number of other things that could lead to a target

With the proliferation of VPNs in recent years, many people are going to be targeted then, which perhaps is a good thing (the more people that leverage encryption for Internet privacy the better).

NSA & GCHQ must be getting very tired of all this cryptography, which has me thinking they have compromised several VPN companies or setup several VPN honeypot companies for their own purposes.

Another thing: being targeted with exploits because you use Tor must be an interesting thing to happen to you. I use secure endpoints and monitor all my traffic, and I've been using Tor since its inception.

Maybe they just don't want to target me because my systems are so hardened? I remain humble however, as everything can be hacked. Whatever exploits they have targeted me with, must be very good because I haven't spotted anything malicious (yet!).
I'm not saying Twitter cares about free speech. I'm saying that if we do, there's probably not much we can do legally to address this situation.
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Could someone tell me as a layperson, how finding these numbers is helping humanity?

When people give such an argument, they usually mean "I am not interested in this topic" and use "why is this helping humanity" as an excuse for their ignorance.
The exact launch date seems to be Feb 19, 2007
See Arch[0] module for FreeCAD.

[0]: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Arch_Workbench
Apparently this double meaning also already existed in Latin (tempus) so it must have spreaded to many languages after that (both from the Greek and Latin roots)
Mailing lists are far easier and quicker, since all you need to sign up is your email. Thats it. No passwords, account names, download an app, etc...

Not everything needs all the bells and whistles
Not gonna lie, I was shocked to find this out: It’s proprietary.

History teaches us that trusting proprietary Microsoft products tends to be a bad idea.

Other than that it’s a pretty okay browser. A bit better than Chrome because of its stacked tabs.
I only wanted to provide feedback, but I will certainly not think about this in the future, so don't feel obligated to answer.

Maybe you can update the article if you think some of these questions are things you want the reader to understand ?
I may not be the target of your article too, I am mainly a web dev.
Keep writing, I wish I had interesting topics to write about. You seem to have good ideas and projects.
And not all stories can become viral on HN !
> Does anyone have first-hand knowledge of what the mob said on Twitter?

The article contains links to a few Twitter posts.[0][1] Keep in mind that they might not be representative.

Edit: also consider that your use of the word "mob" (which isn't used in the Atlantic article) might be unfair, and that the word might apply to us uninvested, nameless faces better than it does to those students and professors putting their real name down against something that actually involves them.

[0]: https://twitter.com/henrifdrake/status/1445520653830930438

[1]: https://twitter.com/NMGasparini/status/1444688917001801730
>Not a healthy precedent to set.

May be a precedent for MIT. UCLA [1] already had theirs and many more who didn't get the press coverage.

Luckily the Universities in UK have remain somewhat firm on the issue ( at least as far I am aware ) but are also under similar threat.

I am also glad this is the top upvoted comment. It wasn't that long ago majority of HN were not on the same side, I think the big tech censorship, while often hard to pin point the right and wrong of it, was a wake up call to a lot of people.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28714431
The NixOS wiki has a good comparison page for templates like devos:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Comparison_of_NixOS_setups

This is the other big one (most stars): https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles
There's money that isn't tainted?
Or better than 480p? Let's not get too carried away here.
Prominently featured name: Peter Daszak

He orchestrated the campaign early on during the pandemic to suppress investigation into the lab leak theory.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/04/who-is-peter-daszak-exec-who-s...
But this isn't WSGNU, it's WSL
North American quail do exactly this. They don't fly for long distances; maybe 50m max, or a hop out of danger or over an obstacle. Most of the time they walk, and they have ground nests.
No offense, and I mean this, but from what you've said I wonder if you suffer from Nice Guy Syndrome.

It is often referred to in the context of dating, but applies to work as well.

There is a book called "No More Mr Nice Guy" that you might find interesting.
Yes, same feeling here. I consider my life like a tragedy in the litterature sense of the term: I knew what was going to happen, I fought and attempted to get people onboard, had psys and all, and at 38 it had exactly the trajectory I had expected.

(Not that I’m not enterprising, I’ve moved abroad, created a company, but love and affection went missing because I have long been depressed and didn’t have any clue in how to make it work when young, and now I can’t stand people socially anymore, and Covid lockdowns were the nail in the coffin - I see the dementia coming like an elephant, or at least the “crazy old man” part of it).
It would also be great if you had some kind of declarative specification language which could generate (parts of) buildings.
Another one that stuck with me is that "matsu" in Japanese matches both English senses of "pine": the pine tree, or being consumed with longing.
> This would make illegal almost all current consoles as well.

Good! The inability to play a local game by putting in a disc and playing is enormously stupid, possibly even more than with a general purpose computer.
Florida Coronavirus Map and Case Count
Is this really how some people think? Eye opening
We used this as one of my son's middle names.
I regret making such a sweeping statement. I do think there are many decent people that get caught up in the cancel mob who are primarily motivated by genuine egalitarianism, and these people can surely be reasoned with.

However, at the same time I do believe that some (perhaps a small minority) of the agitators are cynically motivated by narcissism and sadism, and there's quite a bit of research which points in this direction. For example, the close connection between virtue signalling and grandiose narcissism. Reasoning with this particular subset (however small they may be) is probably not going to be productive because their actions aren't coming from a place of real egalitarianism.
If it wasn’t Twitter it would be Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, or whatever social network is cool tomorrow.

The social media cat is out of the bag. Mob justice is, unfortunately, the purest form of democracy, untempered by government or constitution or other forms of control. The only paths forward are to live with mob justice or to enforce actions against free speech and expression (ie making it illegal to cancel someone on the institution side, or make it illegal to participate in a social media mob on the user side, or make it illegal to host a social media mob on the social network side). I don’t see those happening.
It’s a decent browser. Some don’t mind it being proprietary.
So this old problem is all about the ambiguities that arise when squishing a two dimensional structure- a tree into a one dimensional space- a line of FORTRAN (and all subsequent programming languages).

But there are better options, and they are showing up, in of all things, calculators. Modern calculators allow equations to be entered in typesetting notation. For example, you enter a fraction bar key, then it allows you to enter the numerator, hit arrow key, then enter denominator. The fraction bar grows to accommodate the arguments. For complex expressions, this method requires fewer keystrokes than FORTRAN because it saves on parenthesis. It's also much easier to read. (It's interesting to think about the resulting one-dimensional representation- the sequence of keystrokes: Bar <numerator> Down <denominator> Right).

Programming languages should make use of this. There are many operators, so your editor could allow you to draw some kind of visual representation of a tree right in the code. Operator precedence as a thing is then gone, and the visual representation makes the equation completely unambiguous. We can argue about the visual representation- it could be a tree with branches, boxes within boxes, vertical and horizontal bars..
This did bypass paywall https://web.archive.org/web/20211010104857/https://www.nytim...
Sounds like the beginning of a Theory of Constraints-style novel.
That was an eye opening read on the origins of the word. Interesting history all around.
Even if they can't, one of the key things to come out of Snowden's revelations was that the metadata of the state of the network alone is sufficiently interesting to be worth keeping. Unless everyone talks to everyone else with a constant bandwidth message, information _will_ leak. It's just a matter of "how much".
I setup an RPI in a field at my dad’s w/ 900MHz internet bridge and wanted 24/7 remote access but didn’t want to pay for and configure VPN. At first I opened a router port but the RPI showed access attempts every few minutes, which was troubling. Learned enough about ssh tunneling to setup a systemd service to auto-attach the RPI to an AWS instance. (Also have an RPI on the bench attached as well.)

I always laugh when I ssh into AWS, then into the RPI (over the internet and then a 900MHz bridge). Then sometimes I ssh or ftp into a data logger running in the field. Good times and has worked relatively flawlessly for a few months. (I don’t have any uptime metrics for the network connection but no noticeable problems.)

I’m planning a few more which would be much more remote. Any other suggestions for managing such a setup? Some sites may have cellular connections and so I’m not sure I want 24/7 ssh tunnel (though I don’t think it uses too much data).

Edit: I see others recommending WireGuard for similar situation. Never heard of it will check out.
> NYC Developer Dilemma https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

This resonates a lot with me, as I decided, as a fresh computer engineer grad circa 2006, to choose Wall Street over other places.

With the GFC unfolding over the next 2 years, the incredible rise of tech, the emergence of mobile computer, the iPhone, etc... the money and power clearly shifted very quickly to the West Coast.

I think NYC is still definitely not startup friendly due to the high costs - but maybe its a little less "irresponsible" than when the 2006 blog was written.
Overwatch is also highly optimized via Wine, if you're looking to play. I'm on 6-year-old hardware (i5 4460, GTX 1050ti) and I have no problem hitting 120+ FPS in-game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voXc1nCD4IA

This video is a pretty good demonstration of how neck-and-neck the performance is these days. Frankly, I feel like it stutters less in Linux, but I might just be imagining things.