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Can you elaborate, why exactly is it bad? I am not an expert, but if I was to set up trust, perpetual would be exactly what I'd look for.
BTW, thanks @easygenes. It is really much better nowadays (that goes to show how fast Nix/NixOS is improving).
There is some somewhat confusing naming here, and I believe it is the cause of your confusion.

There is a operating system named Nixos. It uses a package manager called Nix. The package manager can be installed in other operating systems. The package manager is configured using a functional language also called Nix.

What you installed was either the package manager, or a interpreter for the language.

They could've named these things better IMO
My least favorite example of this is statistical "significance" which gives the impression of importance. I can't think of a word that has caused more trouble in science than that.
This is a very late response, but thanks, those all seem like great reasons.
The manufacturer appears to support direct purchase: http://www.wch-ic.com/services/buy_process.html

LCSC is another option: https://lcsc.com/products/Microcontroller-Units-MCUs-MPUs-SO...
At some point, you have to accept that on a technical site like this, there is going to be jargon used (including abbreviations) with furtjer explication of meaning. Would you complain about using DNS? Or HTTP?
Blame could be extended to the corporation. If they swiftly banned permanently anyone engaging in these sort of activities it wouldn't be a problem.
I would argue Docker and Kubernetes are a bunch of crap popularized by people lulled into blowing all their money to cloud providers and compelled out of envy to imitate big tech -style deployments, even though it means taking on extra problems you absolutely don't need to deal with.

Also, Docker and Kubernetes are...just more layers. There is no cleaning up what came before. The Nix ecosystem is about drilling all the way down and cleaning up the prior tech debt. It's a fundamentally different approach.
So having a list of people who called for witch burning and distributing social opprobrium might help.

Make the only cancelling appropriate be for cancelling cancellers. So focus cancel energy on itself.

Personally, I will review job applicants social media history and if there is any “Reeeee” I take that into account as part of reference checks and whatnot.

It seems like someone posting “I’m an MIT alum and I demand this speaker be cancelled” would reflect as lack of critical thinking and reasoning.

I fear that this leads to islands of organizations where there are groups that don’t like this Twitter mob tactic and groups that do. God help those in orgs that think Twitter mobbing is a good thing.
I don’t think it’s reasonable nor advisable to expect banks and trustees to withhold service based on mere “credible accusations”. Courts exist to make these judgments and I don’t think distributing that authority and responsibility is advised.

Imagine someone levies a credible-sounding allegation against you and the prosecutor decides to not take up the case. Should you be able to open a bank account or a trust after that? I think you should.
3 people in my family are after 3rd dose, me included. No issues. Another 7 people are after 2 doses, aged 30-90, again no issues. We all got Pfizer vaccine. Do you have any proof on what you are saying? Because what you just wrote would make a news headlines. Sorry, but without proof it's really hard to believe what you are writing, that sounds more like one of the anti vaccine movement propaganda.
Link gives me a 404 GitHub Pages.
If this is the case with US, I wonder how bad it is in Canada. Canada housing market is flooded with foreign dirty money and the govt. doesn't seem to be interested into doing anything about it. Because it benefits existing house owners.
> Ok, and how do Banks get the money in the first place?

They create it from the air.

They note the debt on one side and the balance on the other when they issue a loan.
Puerto Rico blossomed over tax benefits by bringing your business there, then that stopped and things were not the same since unfortunately. It now has some tax incentives for people bringing their businesses there or so I have heard from relatives.
I agree, the documentation is not good, but here is the explanation of what the different components are: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_Ecosystem
This article had/has a more descriptive URL which was discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23795913
The Future Is Getting Farther Away
I agree. Absolutionistic ethics, of which I am a proponent of, would largely throw out “the paradox of tolerance”.

Cancel culture serves to highlight the inevitable orthodoxies that arise from proponents of “the paradox of tolerance”. Ultimately people need to ask themselves, “By what standard?”
Besides the points others have made here, iirc Finney explicitly denied it. (Same for Szabo.) He didn't have to -- a Glomar response would be perfectly reasonable whether or not you are Satoshi.

I'd take the explicit answer of someone not known to be a liar as the first piece of evidence to mention, not an "oh by the way" far down in the list.
This is why I make the assumption that whatever thing I'm trying to accomplish has at one point been thought of, specified and executed thoroughly, and then potentially forgotten about.

I'm too young to know though.

"There's nothing new under the sun."
can i use the nix package manager without using nixos? is that what the "install" link I referred towards is setting up ? my original impression of nix years ago was that oh it's a package manager, maybe like the old BSD packagesource thing, great. but then "NixOS" came in and seemed to confuse things.

all good stuff but wow that website needs to be reorganized.
Sometimes there's limits to how high you can scale without overloading dependencies. For example, the database that the service accesses might only support n connections and the service is already using approximately n connections.
Additionally, the technology behind BPF changed significantly in the last years to the point where the original meaning (Berkeley Packet Filter) doesn't really have anything to do with BPF anymore. BPF is not limited to network sockets anymore (or something else associated with Berkeley), it is not limited to packets anymore and filtering is not the only use case anymore. The reason that the BPF acronym stuck all those years is that the new BPF features were introduced gradually, there was no particular kernel release introducing a BPF version 2 with all the new features (a release which could have been used for changing the name).

In theory, the kernel people could come up with a new acronym (something like Kernel Bytecode Language might be appropriate), but at this point it's probably too late.
That axis doesn't say they're better at factual reporting, at least not in the top couple buckets. Look at the category that the Atlantic and the NYT are in: it says "mix of fact reporting and analysis". That says nothing about the actual quality of reporting. In NPR's case, it just leads to the Vox problem of thinking you're simply "explaining the facts" while being completely unaware of the biases, blindspots, and inherent poor analysis you are smuggling into your articles.

(For an example of a source that has the same goal but does a better job, see something like PBS Newshour. They've got a pretty thorough leftward bias, but it doesn't compromise the quality of their reporting nearly as severely as it does NPR's).

The one surprise here is the claim that The Atlantic is farther left than the other sources mentioned, as far left as MSNBC. I still remember them as the first mainstream source brsve enough to break the taboo of acknowledging that the lunatic illiberalism sweeping the country had a solid foothold on the left too, after a couple years of being shocked by the phenomenon and the media's silence on it. They continue to publish taboo-breaking analysis; I can't think of any analogue the NYT to Bruenig or Friesersdorf.
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Immigration should be on a reciprocal basis. Americans should give Indians the right to live, work, and own property in the United States, in exchange for India giving Americans the right to live, work, and own property in India, both on an unrestricted basis.
What the current VP said during the previous administration was that she was not confident that the previous administration would base their recommendations on what scientists said rather than what is politically expedient, and that she would go with what the scientists said when it came to evaluating COVID measures.

See https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/23/tiktok-pos...
The etymology suddenly makes me wonder whether living somewhere in which your "tribe" (race, etc.) is not reflected in the majority might be the cause of many anxiety disorders. It certainly makes me feel anxious. I don't think anyone should apologize for wanting to live somewhere that's relatively homogeneous, with only a small number of assimilating outsiders.
Could it be that flat-earth, 9/11 "truth" or moon-landing denial doesn't harm anyone but its stupid believers, where as spreading anti-vaccine lies could harm people?
Nice article. I used to program 8-bit micros, BASIC Stamps, etc. back in the day (early 90s)for animatronic effects for store windows and malls. Mainly electric, pneumatic systems. I even used a capacitive touch sensor through the window of Saks Fifth Ave. to allow children to touch the glass in front of a Nutcracker and have it raise and sound a bell. They loved it! Early touchscreen tech! (I had an NCR 3125 with PenOS and a touchscreen at the same time, so not exactly revolutionary). Most of the logic was pretty simple, so C or asm or even BASIC were fine, and easy enough to step through in my head. At that level, I did not really have very intricate logic or lengthy programs. I picked up the book, "Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK", and read a few articles on how to rewrite portions of C code with SPARK and I am sold on using it for larger embedded projects[1]. I am sure Rust can do the same albeit not with the same ecosystem that you can use with SPARK to the same level - yet. I am happy to see them start to cross pollinate each other with the best ideas from both. I am biased to SPARK, since it was easier for me to understand the syntax, and the concepts as opposed to my efforts with Rust. But this is my preference. I prefer programming in J/APL, so take this with this with a grain of sal(J or APL embedded programming, hell yeah!). It can only get better for both Rust and SPARK from here on in.

[1] https://blog.adacore.com/how-to-prevent-drone-crashes-using-...
Before Twitter conservative religious groups in the United States had and used such power to get those ideas and people they didn't like censored. This isn't a new thing brought about by Twitter, it is just more noticeable these days.
Exactly. To quote Dave Chappelle, out of context to avoid further debate...

"...they dragged me on Twitter. Well I don't give a fuck because Twitter isn't a real place."
> Ya. Because runaway inflation. Any day now. Just like after the last bailout [2009].

Look at the prices of housing, education, and medical care if you want to find inflation. The 3 things everyone wants are the 3 the consumer price index doesn't include ;)
> That Hikvision's dominant shareholder is a state-owned defense association has not yet dissuaded public authorities in Europe from striking deals with the company

Nice!
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Only one problem with your 1-2% risk calculation. In the US at least 100M people have survived infection. Subsidized vaccination of these people amounts to nothing more than payola on a massive scale.
Can't you run an xorg server under Windows and let the WSL apps connect to that?
Natural immunity is better, but politically the CDC cannot accept it.

"Covid Confusion at the CDC"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-coronavirus-breakthrou...

"...The CDC’s failure to report meaningful data has left policy makers flying blind. In the absence of good data to answer the basic questions Americans have been asking, political opinions have filled the vacuum. Strong data might have prevented much of the polarization over Covid.

Sound data from the CDC has been especially lacking on natural immunity from prior Covid infection. On Aug. 25, Israel published the most powerful and scientifically rigorous study on the subject to date. In a sample of more than 700,000 people, natural immunity was 27 times more effective than vaccinated immunity in preventing symptomatic infections..."

"...Despite this evidence, U.S. public health officials continue to dismiss natural immunity, insisting that those who have recovered from Covid must still get the vaccine. Policy makers and public health leaders, and the media voices that parrot them, are inexplicably sticking to their original hypothesis that natural immunity is fleeting, even as at least 15 studies show it lasts..."

"...The CDC did put out a study on natural immunity last month, forcefully concluding that vaccinated immunity was 2.3 times better than natural immunity. The CDC used these results to justify telling those with natural immunity to get vaccinated.

But the rate of infection in each group was less than 0.01%, meaning infections were exceedingly rare in the short two-month time period the agency chose to study. This is odd, given there are more than a year of data available. Moreover, despite having data on all 50 states, the CDC only reported data from Kentucky. Was Kentucky the only state that produced the desired result? Why else exclude the same data from the other 49 states?

Some public health officials are afraid to acknowledge natural immunity because they fear some will choose infection over vaccination. But leaders can encourage all Americans who aren’t immune to get vaccinated and be transparent with the data at the same time..."

"Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections"

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

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Conclusions:

"This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant."

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At what point should this kind of social media bullying be considered as actual harassment? I personally cannot see the difference with the brigading 4chan or some toxic Reddit communities do to attack people. This type of attack always seem wrong, should not be given any weight or power, or tolerated IMHO.
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I agree with 100% of this except for Klein. He and Noah Smith baffle me in that they seem to be smart but are somehow constantly, extremely wrong, and consistently engage with others in intellectually dishonest ways. It's super bizarre (in particular because my overall worldview is pretty similar to theirs).
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Indeed, but I am unsure what OP would want to avoid doing on Vivaldi but would be happy to do on Waterfox.
Flying greatly reduces the weight carrying capacity, and is in theory more susceptible to high wind environments.

There’s a dozen “far future” use cases were a bipedal machine will be more acceptable to humans, including in home maid and artificial body.
That is a good point. I'm not convinced I'm incorrect, but you are also correct.
The universities won't change. Uncensored talks are done off campus or online.
Is Mersenne prime verification really scientifically useful? At this point, getting one more number verified seems about as useful as stamp collecting.
1) Printed? Is he talking about cash?
2) The gov does not print money. Banks do. To give loans.
3) The gov is not your household
I wasn't sure if the 'mad' was an antiquated way of saying 'metnal illness', or if the reader was supposed to be mad at them?

I do enjoy this quote from ancient history

>On the Internet there are enough people interested in becoming amputees to support a minor industry. One discussion listserv has 1,400 subscribers.
It sounds like you understand money!

For bonus points, at whose expense is this happening?
Are we talking about this iOS? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/javascriptcore
Most department heads are administrators doing subpar research and collecting money on both sides.
Lots of reasons, but probably the main reason that Bluetooth (BLE anyway) has exploded is that Apple supported it and that drove adoption. Once you have a major platform adopting it and devs follow and build out SDK's, examples of usage, etc, then it becomes easier and easier for everyone else to jump on the bandwagon.
It's sad.
Ultimately this!

We can refer to supply and demand. But then you can ask why there is higher demand for high skill workers in US business, and so on.

Institutions, laws and culture in Europe are structured differently.
It is the same. The propellers take the same role as gyros. It just uses atmosphere to create lift to become buoyant to make up for the fact that it is not very powerful. Once it is buoyant the interaction between legs and blades seem like the same type of stabilization as any other robot- fast micro adjustments of various potential-filled motors to stay on course
> I hesitate to speculate about Satoshi’s identity, given that the discourse has generally ranged from misguided to downright idiotic and unethical. But with Craig Wright fraudulently claiming credit and invoking a copyright claim to take down the Bitcoin whitepaper, it’s important we revisit the topic and recenter the discussion around the Cypherpunks who actually built Bitcoin.

If the author cared about the shenanigans of fraud Craig Wright, a better approach would be to deal with them directly. The only thing that's hard about that is that the false claims are so numerous.

Wright has conjured a tornado of bullshit. In the process, he has built a loyal following. This is the real story, because the Craig Wrights of the world are wising up to the power of the Internet. They're multiplying, spilling out of the woodwork, and overrunning the pantry. People have an insatiable hunger to be lied to with gusto, and the Internet gives them everything they need to satisfy that hunger. All it takes is an unethical person who understands this point and has no qualms about exploiting it. Past a point, the fact checkers just give up.

We've seen several examples now of this phenomenon. But the Internet-savvy Big Liar is on an exponential growth curve.
There is no physical cash in vaults to back that.
It is much more complicated when someone is tenured, and there was a reason academics were protected by that (but it is thinning now).
>Not.

No one cares about the Fed's muh "consumer prices". No one cares how much the price of furniture or museum tickets or televisions or cigarettes is changing (which together count for over 1/3 of the index, btw)

Now do rent. Or real estate. Or education. Or food.
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Except for the macros you can use JS the same as you use Clojure.
Yeah the env I worked in was managed by some of the core Nix devs so they went in 100% and used all of the cutting edge features. It ended up being utter magic to me and most others I know. Tens of thousands of lines of Nix code so trying to add a library to the build was practically impossible, some of the code was hidden in private repos because it was confidential etc but other repos imported it… gah!
> In this light, the cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos who was invited by the College Republican club is much worse.

This isn't how I remember it. Milo thrived off of these confrontations and being "cancelled," but what really made him drop off were his comments on pedophilia. Being hounded by students legitimized him in his followers mind.
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> The politicalization of the vaccine is foolish and unscientific.

I think you're confusing cause and effect here. The politicization of the vaccine is the reason the government is now pushing vaccine mandates and such, not a reaction to it. If Fox News had spent the last year telling its viewers that seat belts make you sterile, the government would be raising fines and ramping up enforcement and generally adopting policies to force people to wear seat belts, right? And some of those policies would inevitably look like overreach, and people would be writing essays like this one complaining about that overreach.
Quite a ways since the initial demo and HN thread!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE52D-zbX3g

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537807
I've had luck with online backups using Roger Binns' APSW which exposes the same functionality. https://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/backup.html
Same boat. I’m screwed.
Actually it's not different. University lecturers have been protested or cancelled for decades for reasons unrelated to their topic, usually due to political beliefs or corporate interests that clashed with students' ideals. "Cancel culture" is specifically about "personal" societal reforms, which is what makes it different than the older complaints about general politics.

Back in the day it was "edgy" to protest or cancel a speaker due to their support of the Vietnam war. People were just as angry (or more so!) at Vietnam protesters as people are today about "cancel culture" protesters, and vice versa. At the time, it was those young freaks with the long hair who were clearly nuts and extremists and going to erode the country's moral decency. Counter-culture folk in the 60's and 70's were a tiny but vocal minority of young people who were largely put down for their radical views about war and the environment. It's only in hindsight that protesting the Vietnam war seems socially acceptable.
Well, there’s a risk with the blood draw as well. It’s also small.
The "market" for Nix is honestly OCD people that care about the software production process --- "god willing" our fastidiousness will eventually pay off as everyone else slowly boils in "accidental complexity", and our decisions finally make sense to others. In the meantime, it's hard to convey the benefits.

For now, I argue there is surprisingly little business case to care about developer efficiency --- VCs want you to blow cash, and increased developer outsourcing with remote work is covering the stupid complexity costs the cloud imposed. Mainly, businesses are demand constrained. That there is tons of embarrassing supply chain issues rights now is to me in accordance with this. America has gotten really good at advertising and customer acquisition, but we've lost skills at actually doing the basics, as it is really easy to service whatever demand you can scrounge up.

So far now, you either really want a clean workbench, even at the cost of dealing with the complexity that cleanup exposes, or you don't. That says whether Nix is or isn't for you.
Oikophilia is a term many labeled as Xenophobic would prefer. It is based not in hate of outsiders but in love of one's community.
The problem with affirmative action is - its transitive.

If not the most capable applicant is choosen, instead by another criteria (e.g. race) then all who search the most capable outcome of research or education (for example a capable doctor) are forced to engage in what can only be described a racist filter to find the capable applicant.

Affirmative action ever treated the symptom. What i would recommend, is a proportional study place system.
Every "group" gets places, proportional to its representation in the public population. If this group has not enough capable applicants, due to societal wrongs (bad schools in the inner citys), all other groups are shrunk down by the same percentage, to encourage investment into the source of the problem.