skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair - but my reading of that page is that it's actually not a commitment to free speech (as the author would see it, at least), it's basically saying that insisting on exercising your right to freedom of expression when you know people would be offended is unwise and discouraged in this subculture. If anything, the incident described in the article is pretty consistent with this page.
Those those who wonder how it can make it faster since it's using threads and Python has the GIL, numpy releases the gil while doing computation, so thread can actually use multiple cores if you speed most of your time in numpy world.
The penalty is still there you pay the electric bill and it consumes time, but you would donate some cycles for useful scientific computational tasks without any benefit for yourself. If such an algorithm exist, then I don't see why this couldn't be used as Proof-of-Work algorithm.
Couldn’t make it through the article. I’m not sure how to discuss the pandemic with people who won’t acknowledge that a vaccine that prevents death and serious disease is a good thing when over 700,000 people have died in the US alone.
Wasnt sure how to respond, sue me.

My original post was a reference, I guess ya'll haven't caught the special yet.
The more decoupled an organization's or its leaders' incentives are from the "market" - the more risk averse they become. Everything is about keeping your head down and avoiding controversy.

The goal for many orgs now is not to make customers happy anymore, it's to avoid the ire of a small group, and keep rent seeking.

As we move towards post-capitalism this will only get worse.
Exactly. Considering Twitter accounts and likes and retweet’s can be bought amplifying a particular message might only represent less than 10 actual people.

Additionally I’ve never discussed with someone in real life, person to person, about a single Twitter “cancelation” effort. If these issues were truly significant, they would engage the (actual) media, engage (in this case) with official university complaint systems, etc.

These things take more time and effort than retweeting a hashtag though, and most people won’t follow through with it. Which tells me they’re really not all that bothered about it in the first place.
> I have a Windows VM on a NixOS host for gaming, was really quite convenient to set it up, I set it up on a separate drive to be able to boot native too

I've been planning on doing exactly this, but haven't had the time to figure out the best way of going about it.

Is there a good guide/write up you'd recommend? (I already have a Windows 10 install on a separate SSD, but I rarely boot it because I can't stand the OS)
Twitter mobs, [social media] mobs have exactly as much power as external entities are willing to grant them.
Evidently, Canada didn't prioritize Q1 delivery dates. From Our World in Data [1], Canada's total dose administration fell behind the EU during February/March 2021, as Pfizer's European production facility went offline for expansion/refurbishment. The dose-delaying recommendation discussed in this article became official in March, at the peak of the 'vaccine gap'.

However, the overall procurement strategy was a success even in comparison to the EU. Canada's total dose administration rate caught up with the EU's by April at 25 doses/100 people, and during the spring/summer when vaccines became available to the general public Canada had greater availability.

From contemporaneous reporting, it seemed that in summer 2020 Canada believed manufacturers' assertions that they'd have vaccine production ready by 2021Q2.

In general, Canada's vaccine procurement strategy was successful, and the 'gamble' on second-dose delays discussed in this article proved useful at expanding availability among the general population. Complaints otherwise tend to focus on the US comparator (neglecting its effectively nationalized industry) or come from partisan political attacks.

[1] -- https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
> That means that a 1000 cu. feet of air through the HEPA filter will result in 990+ cu. feet of clean air.

I would think you’d get very, very close to 1000 cu of cleaner air, with only 1% of the particles of the input.

It’s not as if that 1000 cu feet has 1% particles.
It's still used with both meanings in Greek.
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You don't think there's any real, individual, independant doubt about vaccines, global warming, or political causes?

Just "everybody you disagree with"? or is your side also controlled by conspiracies of the elites dictating the opinions of their followers?
I'm starting to believe internet in general does this. Being in your room leads your thinking to different roads. When closer to other people you aim for something else. Deeper more subtle connection with others.
Neat project.

I wouldn't have thought to use Zigbee for printers. Now I'm wondering why Zigbee is uncommon. Instead of Bluetooth. Like for my bloodpressure cuff, scale (body weight), thermometer, etc.

Anything anywhere for label printers? I foraged online a bit; no joy.

I did find USB connected devices from Brother.
Not yet observable and no reason whatsoever to expect that it’s waiting to be discovered, aside from our moral desires.

Where in the physical laws of the universe would you even look for free will?
Man I hate this. I sort of get wanting to support robust file sharing for teams, but let's be honest: 99% of file uploads on teams are going to be silly gifs.
Last night I had a few interesting conversations with a range of people at a birthday party. The group I was speaking with were mostly in the sciences and technology with a couple of high school teachers and a college professor in the mix.

The perspectives were interesting. I won't get into all the details here. I'll just say that the well-reasoned opinions spanned a range.

The teachers had legitimate concerns about their safety while teaching in-person classes. One of them told me that the students pull down their masks all the time and that it is impossible to enforce it (she even said it was somewhat cruel for some). Yet she was genuinely concerned about her safety and that of her family.

A tech executive, older than the rest of the group, said he waited as long as possible before getting vaccinated because he wanted to see more data. Or, to be more accurate, he said something like: I wanted to give it enough time to see if fully vaccinated people were going to end-up in the hospital because of the vaccine. He was concerned about potential long term issues (a decade or more). In the end he reasoned he is old enough that he was far more likely to die from something else anyway, so, in his case, the potential for long term effects could be discounted.

Everyone in this gathering was vaccinated, yet, vaccine hesitancy came up in a number of conversations. There were also threads about the idea of the government forcing people to do something with their bodies under threat of losing their jobs, not being able to travel, not being able to go to any public places, etc. In many ways it is an argument that rhymes with the abortion debate: In that case we (well, some of us) believe it is the woman's right to choose. In other words, the government should not have anything to do with a woman's body. And yet, with vaccines, we accept being forced to inject a substance under threat of harm? It's an interesting and very complex comparison.

If I had to summarize the various conversations I would say everybody there wants everyone to be vaccinated. The difference is in how different people think we ought to get there. Some were OK with forcing the issue, others though it was a potentially dangerous precedent.

As is always the case, when you have in-person conversations with people you can actually explore issues in a far more civilized and informative way, everyone is respectful and there is no down-voting or flagging. Just people talking and sharing ideas. Refreshing when compared to the shit show online discussions often turn into.

Anti-vaxxers need help. The path is education, not a hammer over the head. They are not elementary school dropouts without teeth. They come in all shapes, sizes, races and levels of education.
Twitter had become a powerful mechanism to lodge complaints, vid and invalid.

Companies often will immediately take notice of someone they’d dismissed via traditional channels.

Harassment, racism, juvenile immaturity, etc., are also called out via Twitter. Sometimes they are legitimate grievances, other times not.

But there is almost never any due process and as infrequently are there repercussions for liars, people looking for someone to silence, or simple malicious intent.

This is as bad as “disinformation”. It’s ruining many innocent peoples lives, but Twitter couldn’t care any less.

Psychologically this is group bullying without consequences.
You're in for a tough one once you find out that reality TV and video-games exist.
Yeah if you see a for loop on a numpy array in a code base, it's game over.
I can't really answer your question because all of your premises are wrong. Your concern about the IRS is irrelevant: they enforce policy, they do not define it. Your concern about Congress is also irrelevant, since this change can be made through a different process.

The quote from the Secretary of the Treasury did answer the nature of your concern. She has been on reserve boards for almost 30 years, and is head of the department that is concerned with all financial matters in regards to the federal government. If that's not good enough, I'm not sure what would be satisfactory for you.
Does categorizing something as harmful depend on the agent? Shouldn’t the harm exist quite apart from whether or not someone deliberately inflicted it, and regardless of their motivations?

Perhaps you’re reading more into the original comment than I am, but what I took exception with was the notion that the type of emotions aroused by most ads are harmful. I don’t think it’s comparable with withholding food, in either the level of control or the magnitude.
Yes. I know Shopify does (or at least did), I believe Target was a relatively early adopter. I think Tailscale dabbled with the idea.

Everything feels quite stable from a server admin perspective, though there are still various competing methods to actually administer fleets of machines. Nix Ops is a bit opinionated but works okay. I just build locally or in CI and push to hosts remotely.
Many such cases. That's why we need to look more closely at why the professional administrative class so eagerly does the wishes of activist mobs.

Could it be that the activists and the administrators believe the same things?
More to the point: debating the goofballs takes time away from hearing what more moderate people have to say. The Alex Joneses and Billy Grahams of the world take air from people who (for example) think gay frogs sound like a fun time, or favor progressive reform within Evangelicalism. A lot of people have very normal, human fears about the vaccine and still got vaccinated, and those are the people to talk to. People like that represent the larger portion of views in intractable policy debates, not people who are completely unmovable.
Thank you for sharing that, that was interesting!

> The Lua interpreter [3] that soupault uses for its plugin API is a revived 20 year old research project. It only needed minor modifications to build with recent compiler versions.

That's one of the other strengths of OCaml that I didn't mention, especially compared to more recent languages. The language has been around for a long time, and is probably going to be around for a long time.
Is that one they or many they?

Why should I care what they say?
It feels very strange and perhaps kind of contradictory to be presented with an individual who is vehemently against the idea of censorship while also using "the majority of people also hold this view" as their primary justification why censorship in this case is wrong.

If the professor held a view that the minority if Americans supported, would there be more or less reason to support censorship in that case? Would the author had been so quick to defend the professor's beliefs if they had not aligned with the majority's (and, likely, the author's, if I am to judge based on the impassioned editorializing present in the article)?

I'm not certain this sort of appeal to the commons argument has a place in the discussion of ethics and clout-driven censorship--that would boil the entire issue down to a simple.tug.of war between which of the two sides can drum up more/louder supporters. That isn't a question of ethics at all.
Article mentions fs-verify, which I'd never heard of and sounds interesting!

I always found it a bit odd that Linux doesn't have a standard binary signing mechanism, like Windows does through Authenticode (well, and Catalog signatures, and now a different scheme for UWL apps too).

I guess it's not quite as necessary, since on Linux you typically get apps from trusted package repositories, but personally it's still something I'd like to see, so file integrity could be verified later (even offline if wanted).
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> If I find somebody solving a problem quickly when I am stuck (which in itself is a rare, because I tend seek help quite late), I typically ask questions on what they were thinking. May even dig into their mindset (to their discomfort) like a psychologist.

As someone new on a big codebase, with lots of collegues with lots of experience, this part is really important. I try to not ask questions too early, but when I do, I make sure to try to dig a bit deeper. I ask other questions, about how it relates to other things I've learned. All of that help me build my understanding of the codebase, of the business, of the company and the people inside it quickly.
>Stop listening to them?

You can, but institutions and businesses won't. That's the entire problem.
That “1-2%” is FAR too high of an estimate.

Although regional numbers vary of course, in my state the death rate by county has averaged between 0.0004 and 0.0032 percent.

Or, in decimal notation, 0.000004-0.000032

These numbers were calculated based on the Covid data repository maintained by the New York Times (https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data) and US Census data (http://www.census.gov/).
Still learning a language (or a carpentry tool for the matter) is a cost no matter how easy.

It would be great if we could have a unicorn language that can do it all optimally - or at least adequately. Then we can fully focus and master that one language.

Nevertheless I think most will agree that JavaScript isn’t that language.
This appears to be driven at a basic level by a desire for justice. Having had some thousands of years of experience with the quest for justice we can say with some level of certainty that effective justice seeking has some particular characteristics without which justice remains elusive.

There must be a clear statement of the injustice which must be corrected. There should be a hearing where all involved can state their view of the situation. The accused should be allowed representation. Judgements should be made by persons who are at some level uninvolved with the conflict and committed to balanced interpretation of evidence. Any punishments should be related to the nature and scale of the injustice. And so on--of course someone with more direct experience could summarize this and make it happen better than I.

The point is that mob justice is not justice and all you have to do is give it some basic rules and constraints and it either gets deflected or gathers up into something that has actual meaning.
Bipedal drone. Its not the same to stabilize on the slackline with rotors than without.
Do we know if it's really about the light? For me, I suspect that computers and phones are just hyperstimulating. It prevents winding down and preparing to sleep, so it's about the medium, not the technology.

Same rule, different explanation, same result.
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The problem is that the United States is relying on FDA approval for its recognized vaccines. As a result, AZ shots are not recognized for US-travel purposes, so a Canadian who received a first AZ shot and a second Pfizer shot has only one dose as far as the US is concerned.

Canada has approved the J&J vaccine, but it has not distributed any such shots. The first shipment it received came from the troubled production facility that operated off-spec, and the shipment was ultimately rejected (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/world/canada-jj-vaccine.h...). Canada has only distributed AZ, Pfizer, and Moderna shots.
Or the admin feel like they are taking the easiest way out? But if I was an admin, the easier thing would be to ignore it.
If you have been vaccinated in Canada with AstraZeneca you are not considered vaccinated at all in the US (not approved) and you might or might not be considered vaccinated in Europe depending on the manufacturer/lot of your shots (UK, vaxzevria, yes, India, covishield, no, USA, just called AstraZeneca, cannot find any information about it) and the European country in question (not all countries accept all AZ manufacturers as valid).

It is a fairly ridiculous situation and if you need to travel it's definitely an issue given a lot of countries are moving towards "green pass" type actions where unless you are "fully vaccinated" (with the approved vaccine) life will be very difficult for you.

There really should be a better solution about at least the most common vaccines being cross recognized everywhere and not used to artificially block people from moving (why should AZ manufactured in the UK be treated any differently from AZ manufactured in India)
But it mounts the remote fs as local. You should be able to debug locally and do whatever in the shell at it is a local mount, no?
The solution is to sue these people for wrongful dismissal.

The solution is to stop signing contracts with integrity clauses.

The solution is to stop working for companies without a backbone.
Maybe you missed it:

At the Labour conference a week or so ago, an MP referred to Tories as “scum”. Yup, that’s the majority of the voting population, and the ones they are trying to win over, are ‘scum’.

I agree twitter is a hateful place, but so is the political left. But the vast majority of twitter are also very left wing.
Vote in or appoint new leaders who do not give a damn about them. May backfire if too callous people are the winners.

Another method, create a formal method for processing complaints from Twitter that diverts the hateful energy from individuals towards a larger decision-making body. Let us say that a random 24 people jury of MIT peers had to decide by secret ballot whether the researcher in question gets approved or disinvited, and that the result is 14:10 to keep him.

The Twitter mob cannot really do anything with such result, if individual voting behavior was anonymous.
Ultimately I blame Twitter and Twitter mobs for all insanity like this. World would be a much better place without Twitter.
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It's a remarkably consistent phenomenon, on WP and elsewhere. This page [0] goes some way to showing just how deeply biased Wikipedia has acted against Grayzone and others like it:

[0] https://mronline.org/2020/06/15/wikipedia-formally-censors-t...
There was an international engineering letter of protest that the Soviet RBNK reactor in Chernobyl was an unsafe design. The reactor was too large to have a containment dome, which as a standard feature of all western reactors would have prevented the accident.
Oh that's interesting too. So if I said "it's time for lunch", would that be kairos or chronos?
People can end up living at airports for months or years at a time
>So I don’t hate Nix, but I do have a lot of constructive criticism.

Why not write a blog post? Probably some of those issues are known but no one works on them, so a reminder isn't bad. And for those that aren't, maybe someone picks it up and tries to fix it.
Those don't sound like "blobs" to me -- that stands for "Binary Large OBject"; JSON is text, not binary, isn't it?
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Yeah not sure where Jacobin was going with this argument. I normally enjoy their stuff, but not sure if I feel comfortable with the state having a platform like Facebook. It’s a good enough propaganda machine without state control

More regulation & policy targeting FB? Sure. Public utility? No thank you
the problem is that prestigious institutions are run by bureaucrats wearing its skin. For example this article says "MIT buckled", when in reality some campus admin buckled because to them it's not worth risking their comfy job over a speaker. The bureaucrats have no skin in the game, they don't benefit from thinking about long term damage to MIT or society in general. From their perspective it's logical to bow to Twitter mobs and collect their paychecks
Engineering especially software just like DJing used to be for geeks. That's no longer the case, now it's become hip. Thanks to how easy it is to pick up coding these days. Look at the founders background at YC companies shift over the years. The issue is when there is lack of forums for geeks, we as a society stop innovating.
No, it's the truth. Whether you use react or vanilla js, creating 10 000 complex element trees is going to take a lot of time due to the DOM recalculating layout and redrawing between every DOM operation.

React makes it easy to draw less through virtualization. Virtualization is very hard to implement in a non-declarative way
I'm using it for some internal systems at work and I feel there's nothing like it.

NixOS gives a level of reproducability that other tools like Ansible won't ever be able to give you.

This reproducability means it makes debugging problems very easy: E.g. uncomment a line in the config and see if something starts working again. You can nearly undo everything cleanly in NixOS by just doing that.

On the other hand the learning curve really is pretty steep. Took me about half a year to get to a point where I understood it enough to be able to debug most errors.
I blame an administrative class that is either too cowardly to stand up to the mob, or - and I fear this is more likely - actually deranged and in complete agreement with the mob.

I say the latter is more likely because, in this case and so many others, there was so little at stake. There was no imminent risk to MIT's reputation for platforming a climate scientist speaking on climate change... merely because he had elsewhere spoken unfavorably of affirmative action.

The dreadful truth is the administrators think the activists are right. Not threatening. Morally right.

The administrators and the activists believe in the same ideology. They are enlisted in the same cause. They are on the right side of history, mowing us down with a joyful song of resistance in their hearts.

And still we praise and support these institutions.
That could be part of it. According to surveys the administrators are very left-wing, even more than the professors who are already almost completely left-wing themselves.
I was trying to imagine a perfect system: several dictators that control access to their own chunks of scarce resources, plus several dynamically formed groups that operate by consensus, funded by one of the dictators.

I think it ends up hard to distinguish from #2.
Death 2 nazis
I am talking about DOM manipulation operations such as creating and updating elements. See my other comment.

React does not query the DOM at all (almost), so query speed is irrelevant