skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe buy land, plant some clovers and stick some bee hives on it.

The pervasive attitude of dealing with problems real or imagined with “who can the state punish?” rather than “what can I do to can I fix this?” is disturbing.
Dr. King put it best: "a riot is the language of the unheard."

Some portion of the mob on Twitter is people chasing clout and performing social justice. For example: I've been attacked for "generalizing nonbinary people" by cis people while describing my own experience as a nonbinary person, so I don't doubt people like that drive a lot of the discussion, but the vast majority is sincere if sometimes misdirected anger at genuine powerlessness. A Twitter riot is much like a physical riot: some agitators, but mostly just angry people denied a voice taking one by force.
> Difficult for me to imagine some sort of "mission driven school", especially advertised as a counterpoint to elite University cancel culture, didn't just turn into just as much of an illiberal institution, but just with a hard right/conservative bias.

Perhaps what we perceive as a 'conservative' bias is just what centrist discourse used to be like before the twitter mobs?
> Psychologically this is group bullying without consequences.

Very much so. It's mob mentality. The group diffuses the responsibility, shielding everyone, enabling the bullying to be done without consequences.

IMO it should be illegal to fire someone based on mob actions. There should be legal repercussions to this. Either against the people who did the firing, or against twitter, for enabling mobs and bullying. There's a legit case to be made that twitter has caused significant damage to people's images and careers, that they've known about this problem for a long time and did nothing about it. Victims could get together and do a class action lawsuit.

It's scary because realistically, it might take a long time for things to change. Right now, the mob can crush anyone they feel like crushing with no consequences. Does anyone really want to live in that world? This could get worse if we let it. It might even be possible to weaponize this, pay for a botnet to get someone you don't like fired.
Yes, most people voted to leave so were convinced by the arguments of the Leave side who vehemently denied anything like this would happen.
PicoTorrent is Windows-only.
My point is that some stocks people are buying with their hearts and not as much with their brains. They believe in the future and they buy no matter what the price. Revenue multiples are not considered. Spacex will almost certainly be one of these stocks when it goes public.
This could be great for package delivery.
I don't know about other mice, but the Logitech M705 has that.
Okay, but people clearly do want to listen to the mob. Is the suggestion to cancel those people?

It's hilarious that the pure libertarian approach is literally "do nothing".
For those who can't find brand name blue light blocking glasses in their region, yellow or orange tinted plastic safety glasses are available everywhere and they work just as well.
For your iPhone, you can use Color Filters under Accessibility -> Display & Text Size -> Color Filters. Set it to Color Tint and play around with the sliders to your liking (I personally set intensity to ~85%, hue ~8%, and compound it with Night Shift). I also use Reduce White Point (also located in the same place) to further reduce the screen brightness. With these two features, you can get your phone very similar to f.lux.

You can set these two features as active in Accessibility Shortcuts (bottom of the Accessibility menu), allowing them to be quickly toggled by triple clicking the power button. As an alternative gesture, you can also set Accessibility Shortcuts to activate via triple tap on the backside of the phone (Accessibility -> Touch -> Back Tap).
Logitech seem to have a monopoly on this particular development - you’ll be looking for something like the MX Master series for a non gamer mouse with this functionality - the MX Master 3 is the most recent model. The clutch on the scroll wheel on this mouse can be manually engaged or programmed to release when you scroll with sufficient violence
There are facts and there is my personal opinion. Personally I find this technology extremely worrisome and there is a good chance they will make it mandatory before long.
Yeah, and why Serenity OS?

Why not Haiku or something else?
The Insecure Supply Chain
> So i do not see any added benefit for https

Doesn't it, at least, protect against snooping by (most) non-state actors? I'm pretty sure MI6 can break into my house, that doesn't mean I'm going to give up on locking my door.
During WWII, 40% of the US food supply came from private gardens.

Today, gardens amongst the general population basically don’t exist (are so few/small that they don’t represent a measurable fraction of food supply or available arable private land).

So, it’s difficult to know whether or not we would cease to exist.

I suspect not.
There's also a conscious belief on behalf of immigrant families like my own that the reason we came to this country is for the free speech, so when we see American institutions that do not seem to care, we wonder if America actually lives up to its promises.
There has been a lot of work on "proof of useful work" coins. https://gridcoin.us/ is the popular one. The benchmark idea doesn't work for the reasons other commenters raise.
It’s interesting we never see birds or insects doing this hybrid walking flying locomotion. Perhaps some species of dinos did it.

Update:
An ask Jeeves search suggests ostriches use their wings for balance but I couldn’t find any videos. Can anyone find such a thing? Perhaps it’s misinformation.
Unpredictability != randomness
It’s apropos that this was posted at the optimal time to rise up the front page, and that identifying such time is more of an art than a science.
GUI wise, I'd say focus .

All of gnome, kde, win10 and osx give me an endless stream of distractions. Lots of superficial glitter, but every few minutes something minor bugs out, which is incredibly distracting. Alerts for the dumbest things everywhere. Nanyware. Blah blah something something experience really needs looking at. Oh no updates to install before next week which requires a paternalistic message, no matter if I shut of the computer daily.

The problem isn't what to add, but what to delete. And as win95 was damn usefull with 4mb of RAM, there's a lot to delete.

I'm using KDE as least worst option.
No.

Infrastructure is the problem. If you though charge stations for EV were a problem, hydrogen is 1000x worse (and harder to solve).

Hydrogen is a bitch to control - generally do you NOT and never are able. We only have to look at the trouble (and costs) that NASA has had and continues to have to spend to manage hydrogen without major injury or accidents.

Hydrogen that escapes into the air ALSO is an ozone destroyer like freon is. Leaks are far more inevitable than with even natural gas. And for that reason you CAN NOT use natural gas pipes to transport hydrogen (some ignorant yahoos have claimed that as a plan).
He wants a system based on merit?

Where should this merit come from for underrepresented groups if not from affirmative action?
The UI for Nix has been under significant rework over the last ~3 years, but the new UI isn't ready for primetime yet, so none of it is made prominent now. It's getting there though.

You can have a peek here: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/experiment...
Ah, so the solution to cancel culture is to...cancel more people, using the power of the state to instill your views over everyone else. How the libertarian paradise has decayed.
It's okay to cancel the cancellers. In fact, the expected outcome of this effort is to 'cancel' the cancellers, by not allowing their complaints to translate into institutional action. They are free to argue others should be canceled, but no one should listen to them. Given that they are currently listened to, preventing that is indeed a form of cancellation, and it's a good one. You cannot and should not expect to benefit from the very policy you denigrate.
Very well could happen, I wish the regular folks luck as they’re the ones who usually get the worst of it anytime something like that happens.

It seems like a Lose-lose proposition to me frankly, they’d be better off (IMO) trying to minimize the divisions and working together as Lebanese instead of all these fragmented groups, but that seems unlikely considering the history.
I've used a recent version of WF yesteryear on Mac and Windows, both with the firewall installed and guess what. The Firewall started notifying numerous outgoing connection attempts even before I opened any webpage! WF was obstinately trying to record each and every info about me into a network of servers. But that's not the end of the story. I've installed the classic version of WF so that it would run on my older Mac. What could be worse than an unashamed privacy infringement? WF Classic froze the whole operating system, the keyboard went unresponsive so I had to do a hard shutdown! You know each hard power off could destroy the SSD. Luckily for me the SSD survived the hard off but one thing is proven for sure: WF is to be avoided at all costs.
The Times in the UK does this albeit several times a day as opposed to a weekly digest.
Any talk of Kairos should include John Vervaeke - Awakening from the meaning crisis.

https://youtu.be/FvLe4BuU-NM?t=2877
https://youtu.be/Jbwm03djuJc?t=34
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Maybe "not waste time" means do something big and important, impactful. But that feels overwhelming and that prevents you from getting started, which can manifest as lack of ambition. Once you work on something for a bit, you start feeling driven.
Is there evidence that Le Roux used Bitcoin? Certainly he had a use for it. But the author of the Mastermind looked into this idea and didn't find any evidence for it
This has been my experience working alongside University administrators. A sizeable chunk of them (I wouldn't say a clear majority, but in no way a small minority) are exactly the kinds of people who participate in these mobs, and are perfectly happy to use small spats and uproars on Twitter as political cover to legitimize their internal activism.

The people buckling out of fear are less worried about the consequences of upsetting faceless Twitter users than they are about upsetting a semi-organized and ideologically motivated fifth-column within their own organizations.
World’s most powerful MRI scanner delivers its first images
Paul Simon, American Scribe, at Age 80
Antibody tests exist. I’m not in any way antivax, but it makes no sense why people who already had COVID should be required to receive a vaccine instead of just proving they have antibodies.

This kind of illogical policy gives fuel to antivaxers.
Yeah, I'm just waiting for Jeff Geerling to get onboard with Nix. Then things will get interesting (he's a big Ansible buff and probably the biggest RasPi Youtuber).
I like that one of the news posts is on exploits that were discovered. He's not trying to sweep problems under the rug.
Industry has such workflows but they currently revolve around heavy products like Tekla Structures, Grasshopper/Rhino, Revit, Archicad and so on.

I'm not aware of "light" version for "non-professional" residential projects.

The thing about buildability is that when you want an _actually_ buildable model you want vendor components(windows, curtain walls and whatnot), manufacturable details and so on and those come out of the box AFAIK only in a product like Tekla Structures.

Industry is reaching a stage where the house that is to be built on-site can be actually modeled in 3D - the current WOW is mostly that the 3D model is used to output 2d drawings and then manual building ensues as it has for centuries/decades with details that are not exactly right, lots of manual fittings and ad-hoc installations if HVAC and so on.

BIM 3D models are only now becoming detailed enough with enough cross domain support to actually model the whole thing.
Also, from an online dictionary,

tempest

Middle English tempeste, borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Vulgar Latin tempesta, replacing Latin tempestāt-, tempestās “stretch of time, period, season, weather, stormy weather”
<I actually support affirmative action>

Perhaps a system that just looks at your economic underpriviligedness instead of skin color could work?

</I actually support affirmative action>
Your comment is a partial answer to a question I have: are there any universities with any prestige who still, today, uphold the principles of free expression and academic freedom? I thought MIT might still have some institutional self-respect, and am saddened to find out that it does not. Who’s left (in addition to U. of Chicago)?
"It's okay to cancel"

You can just stop right there! Either it's okay to cancel, or it isn't. "It's okay to cancel those that I don't like, but not cancel those I do like" is infantile reasoning and not to be taken seriously.
Must be the homophobe inside you.
10 years ago: Dart was open sourced
Why OpenEBS 3.0 for Kubernetes and Storage?
This post, like many in this thread, misrepresents what free speech is. Free speech protects us from government retribution, nothing more. I agree that it's bad form to lobby the university directly, but it's their right to do so, and the university has a right to change which speakers it invites. Having it any other way would be an attack on free speech.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The purpose of free speech is to prevent the government from punishing people for their views. A similar imposition on citizens would violate their 1st amendment rights.
Military / intelligence agency would not have tripped up.

Their motivation could be promoting democracy (they did make Tor for this purpose after all) and/or money for black ops.
According to the upstream article posted in a sibling comment [1], the decision was made by the department head for EAPS, themselves a scientist AFAICT [2].

That doesn't necessarily change anything (and I'm not weighing in here), but given your assertion it seemed worth pointing out.

[1]: https://orgchart.mit.edu/node/6/letters_to_community/importa...

[2]: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/hilst
V7 Unix had no stack size limit, and when Unix acquired one
What? Software is immortal and binary - there are no transcription errors or mutations in a correct copy routine.

Why shouldn't software be set and forget? Don't Ada and VHDL have massive amounts of re-use of things written in the 80's and 90's?
Wow. Should we let the bar of perfection be lifted so high that noone can meet those standards? No matter how long ago their sins were or whether they have rehabilitated themselves?

Are the people who are lifting that bar really as virtuous as they think themselves to be?

Res ipsa loquitur: 'The thing speaks for itself.'
I hope this paper accounts for the well established evidence of dementia relating to poor sleep hygiene across the lifespan, and the also well established relationship between poor sleep and neuroticism - the personality trait responsible that broadly accounts for negative emotionality, as this would explain that this paper simply observes the causation of dementia from poor sleep and other behaviours across the lifespan, which is originally attributed to personality developement (neuroticism is very plastic and is established before the age of 6).
I agree but for a different reason: you’re probably gonna get a better education than in most of these football down in the goonies universities. If football is what drives the funding and the students guess what drives the priorities as well?
Then the campaign to cancel Abbot’s lecture began. On Twitter, some students and professors called on the university to retract its invitation. And, sure enough, MIT buckled, becoming yet another major institution in American life to demonstrate that the commitment to free speech it trumpets on its website evaporates the moment some loud voices on social media call for a speaker’s head.

Two tweets does not seem like a mob. The quality of The Atlantic has really gone downhill. No different from the rest of the hype-filled media.There are 1000x more tweets about the cancellation than tweets that called for his cancellation.
rnix-lsp is decent these days: https://github.com/nix-community/rnix-lsp
Two examples to get a taste of the tradeoffs and utility it provides would be postgrest and IHL.

I think it’s sexy. But like you I haven’t had the time to really dive into it and understand it. The promise is simplification, both operational and in terms of the runtime.
NumFOCUS has a huge overhead for directors and staff ($605,615.79 in 2020). This is not looked upon kindly by OSS authors who are doing the work and get much less (or nothing!).

If this foundation does not have such an overhead and will never create cozy director posts, cozy diversity officer posts etc., then this is a huge credibility boost and I'd mention it on the website (with the explicit promise!).

But then the foundation has to stick with it and not stealthily sneak in CoCs and people after a while.
I think Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan are setting the standard for ignoring cancel culture, and are being rewarded for it. I think most moderate people are sick of cancel culture and will support those that won’t buckle to it.
The twitter mob in this case could have a legitimate impact on MIT donations. Quoting a tweet included in the article:

As an alum, I’m asking you to fix this—now. Totally unacceptable and sends a message to any student that isn’t a white man that they don’t matter and that EAPS isn’t serious about (and is actively hostile towards) DEI

Presumably MIT cares what it's alums care about since they are a major source of donations. I express no opinion on anything else in the article, just that alums being mad is a negative outcome for MIT.
I'm not sure which part of my comment makes you think of cancel culture.

My general gist was that we should make it illegal to fire someone, penalize someone or withdraw opportunities because an online or real-life mob told you to. Mob "justice" has been a problem humanity has had to deal with for centuries/millenia, but the internet somehow made people think mobs are OK, because participating is risk-free now.
The constant schisms in the linux desktop community mean that it's in a perpetual state of various levels of broken. SerenityOS is breath of fresh air if you've ever tried to put a pixel on a screen without relying on an ever increasing pile of abstractions.
Here are some schools that endorse the Chicago Statement on Freedom of Expression: https://www.thefire.org/chicago-statement-university-and-fac...

Not all of these schools have a perfect history of supporting free expression, but this is a big positive indicator.
The events in Cuba have been studies and even US government reports say there were no microwaves, no ultrasounds, no other energy weapons. The only sounds that could be recorded were positively identflified to a particular cricket.
What exactly did Twitter itself do other than create a unique platform that is arguably valuable in its own right? Are they secretly making it more evil to make more ad money?
You could make openscad modules for the various parts of your house sketch and use those. I’m not sure if that would work well or not.
Trigger a Kubernetes HPA with Prometheus Metrics
After returning 4 Pixel phones last year for terrible QA issues, and the total incompetence of Google Fi, there is a 0 chance of me purchasing another madebygoogle product in my lifetime. Can't wait for my iPhone 13pm to arrive.

I also think the leaks are fake, intentional. Nobody cares.

Having recently used flagship Pixels and iPhones simultaneously I can say hands down iOS is the better software. Android, and the Pixel phones are a cheap imitation of Apple's product made for counterfeit people who can't recognize authentic innovation.

Anyone filming 4k60 on their new Pixel 5A has a small taste of how poor QA on Pixels is, and how Google simply isn't qualified to make a phone. They don't get it.
The Launch of Landsat 9 Was Overshadowed by the Space Tourism Frenzy
> it seems to me like it’s competing with docker and kubernetes and I have never seen a convincing argument about why it would be better.

This seems to indicate a huge mismatch between what you think Nix/OS is compared to what it actually is. NixOS is for creating/maintaining systems, Docker is for running applications and Kubernetes is for running applications but across multiple servers, neither of those tools are like the other really.
One of the first I heard of was Primecoin [0], which still seems to be going along steadily. They've actually uncovered a number of world records [1] looking for Cunningham Chains.

[0] https://primecoin.io/

[1] https://primes.zone/#records
Using load shedding to avoid overload
Having worked in a large Nix dev environment, the difficulty in understanding what was going on meant devops were needed for the simplest changes. Ended up being a blocker for every project I was on. Love the idea but really really dislike it in practice. NixOS is cool though.
Foreign money floods U.S. tax havens. Some of it is tainted
You really shouldn't take obvious military-industrial grifting like this article to mean much of anything about the world.
I think parent is saying that the progressive Twitter mob has been labeling and attacking people who support merit-based admissions policies that ignore race as racists for many years already. This cancellation is not “different” as the author says, they are only now becoming aware of the pervasiveness and wrongness of this type of thinking since it happened to someone they care about and not someone they didn’t.
Yes but « docker build » already exists and can already be made deterministic so it’s indeed somewhat competing. Would anything be easier by using Nix?

Right now it seems to me like a large ordeal with little to no benefits and my interaction with the Nix community hasn’t been very convincing. A lot of Nix users seem to believe determinism and reproducibility of everything to be enough of a justification in itself. I don’t think it’s worth the pain.
Phenomenal visualizations! Truly a game changer in exposition. Would love to use these interactive visualizations in my blog to take it to the next level. Anyone know which tool(s) the author has used?
Empuls is a holistic employee engagement solution that aims to improve company culture & bring the
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teams together, eliminate silos and provide a voice to every employee in the organization.
This seems right, dementia is correlated sleep quality and consistency which is correlated with the personality trait neuroticism (govens depression, anxiety, stability and negative emotion largely). This simply confirms the existing evidence that poor sleep hygiene over a long period of time harms the brain, possibly along with lack of fitness, both of which can be blamed on personality
Yes, they are very comparable. One tries to kill you outright, one tries to kill you by starvation or drive you to suicide.
The old urban legend of the IBM service alert for field techs.

https://www.neystadt.org/john/humor/IBM-Mouse-Balls.htm
Why Budgets Make People Angry
That's exactly the point that the article was trying to make: a loud minority calling for the cancellation, and the institution buckles and does the cancellation despite of common sense.
They can't be a victim if they are consenting (aka, knowingly accept the harm because they figured the trade-off is worth it).
Privacy on Linux, invaded.
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