skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cancel culture isn't a good thing for society. If you want the freedom to present your case you have to tolerate and accept the idea that you will be exposed to content you do not agree with and might even find to be repugnant.

Hard-core anti-vaxxers are on the wrong side of science. We should not silence them. We should ask ourselves why they have such beliefs and understand what we have to do to improve their intellectual standing in life. At the end of the day it boils down to education.

I think these articles are ridiculous, but also know we are not going to get anywhere without (a) understanding their perspective and (b) using intelligence (rather than a hammer) to help them see why they are wrong.

Put yet a different way: You don't want these conversations to happen behind closed doors. If society is going to advance, they need to happen in the open.
For dev environment s I would recommend taking a look at devshell: https://github.com/numtide/devshell
That’s their problem, not mine.
okay, and this is from 1997. I imagine we are getting attacked from all sides. Awareness is only the beginning.
> Apple seems to be the only exception.

Nah.
I don't mean isolating just the project, but also its development environment, tools for making assets, their dependencies, etc. Possibly persisting runtime state when switching over to a different project. Basically, as if each project had its own dedicated laptop.

IIRC, Vagrant was geared for just project isolation, and didn't offer the optimum VM management experience.
The 68000, like the 6809, was fun to program, and it had great documentation available from Motorola. I remember the wonderment when I received a free 68000 programming manual in the mail just by sending a documentation request to them. My pre-teen self thought nothing would come of it, but Christmas came early.
It turns out using numpy is enough for Python to parallelize this adequately using threads, see this code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28817357
This is a free speech context right so surely the answer is to convince the mobs that this current approach is counter-productive?

Edit: I’m also unsure if this was caused by people on Twitter or staff and students at MIT who are also on Twitter. It seems like the latter is more correct and the Twitter side of things might be a red herring.
This is simplistic.

The security is found to be sometimes lax with these CAs. There have also been problems with audits, CTs and paper trail. I recommend this episode of the following podcast on security of CAs:

https://securitycryptographywhatever.buzzsprout.com/1822302/...

CTs help, but you really have to see who is behind them and how they are operated.

It’s known that hacking companies run CAs, accepted by Firefox and Chrome (at least for a period of time).
Are We Anti-Cheat Yet? A list of anti-cheat compatible games for GNU/Linux
Our Strong-Features Bias
Yes. Just look at how some governments allow malpractices in casinos and lotteries, while they profit from the taxes.
> That seems awfully contextual and ad-hoc. Surely this mechanism won't work in many instances unless you only receive mail on your birthday.

No, you're only more likely to receive stuff that looks like birthday cards on or around your birthday.

But, forget the birthday -- your earlier statement:

>>> To me there seems to be a contradiction in those two statements. By definition, an address is written

...is already contradicted if the postal worker just recognizes your name, and knows that you live at your actual address and not the one the written one more resembles. Your name isn't written in the address itself.
Have a look at http://wiki.midibox.org/, I see example projects having midi inputs as well as outputs.
Didn’t come across that way at all to me. I read it as general concern at the suppression of ideas. There was no call to action to ban Twitter hashtags or forfeit MIT.
A lot of people already have had the virus though. From the article:

> During lockdowns, essential and frontline workers bore the brunt of COVID-19 cases while affluent professionals stayed home, teleworked, and ordered delivery. These workers were once called “heroes.” Now the Zoom class labels the same workers “anti-vaxxers” if they prefer to rely on the natural immunity many of them have already acquired from previous infections.
The author is head of something he calls "Persuasion." Not everyone is impressed.

https://newrepublic.com/article/158401/problem-yascha-mounks...

It's free speech 101 - you can say what you like (as long as you're not inciting crime or violence.) But no one owes you a pulpit.

I have far more of a problem with mob farming and Twitter incitement: see also anti-vaxing, organised climate change denial, and political rabble rousing.

Because those are covert rather than free - pretending to be independent and organic while actually being centralised and astroturfed.
So, you are excluding that the NL (as per your profile) does not retain calls and messages involving their carriers: this surprises me. But I do not know in which Countries it is done and in which it is not. Are you sure?

Nokia dumbphone: is it possible it uses old communication protocols, which allow or eavesdropping? See for example: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/12/15-phone-3-minutes-a... . With this we are not talking about the State collecting your communications, but that your communications could be intercepted by Trudy. It may be a problem or not.

You seem to consider Linux ("desktop") as safe, and also the hardware it sits on. This trust does not come as default.

«[A]s secure as it gets» is not trivial; for what the neighbours are concerned - no disrespect intended - I also win the local squirrel at chess. From "with some level of consideration" to «guaranteed» there is still road to consume.
Being "the God of the opportune moment," like Kairos, has always been my favorite specialization for deity.
Seems like a very simple solution. I struggle to see any material effect to MIT had they simply ignored these complainers.
You can have service based accounts. They should just be always optional.
>They find software repositories and package managers confusing and overengineered.

And that's why big distros have created GUIs (e.g. Ubuntu's software center) that truly hide any technicalities. Nix-GUI, as it's now, will instead be more like Synaptic, it kinda makes life easier but you still require technical knowledge to use it.
It's not Twitter, it's this new breed of racism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_a_White_Horse_is_Not_a_Ho...
China’s cameras face fresh scrutiny in Europe
You can tell this is a social movement and not a technology movement by the way it increases the complexity of everything by orders of magnitude without delivering any meaningful improvements to the end user/customer experience.
> MIT buckled, becoming yet another major institution in American life to demonstrate that the commitment to free speech it trumpets on its website

The what?

I'm an MIT alum and I cannot remember anything about a commitment to free speech on the website. I don't see one now, and I can hardly see any relevant search results for `"free speech" site:mit.edu` - a few blogs and research papers, but nothing about a commitment, certainly nothing trumpeted. I certainly did not see one when I applied. I applied to a school that claimed to be good at science and engineering.

If you want to argue that MIT or any other institution or perhaps all institutions should champion free speech, sure. If you want to hold people accountable for promises they did make (cf. a Reddit co-founder claiming that Reddit wasn't intended to be a "bastion of free speech" years after describing it as exactly that, Twitter calling itself the "free-speech wing of the free-speech party"), by all means hold people accountable. But the idea that everyone should be on exactly your side of what is actually a complex and multifaceted question because that particular view is obviously what everyone in our culture believes is, frankly, illiberal.
The Internet, and all existing services, is based in physical locations, subject to local and international laws, governed by the decisions of real people with diverse motivations, and capable of influencing real-world outcomes on many scales.
This isn't a question of liberal or conservative principles, if you talk about, for example, abortion, then it's the conservatives who think the government should decide what you're allowed to do with your body.

And a conservative would say "no because there's a victim involved" and they'd be right, that's what this is about: is the impacts of non-ev cars on the people around us something that we should care about, take seriously, and regulate - if conservatives think it is then they will want more rigid laws as they do for other serious infractions.
The power they have isn’t over us, it’s over institutions and businesses who seem to bend to the will of the mob.

I’d like to see some data on whether a Twitter storm in a teacup has any measurable negative consequences for a typical large organization, and whether they need to listen as often as they do.
Gatsby – An open source video sharing platform based on peer-to-peer networking
Did you mean 1am?
I echo your sentiment.
The solution is for us to rise into those positions of power, and once entrenched govern our organizations to be impervious to any such mobs.

There is no other solution.
I can't help but think about Discordian reality tunnels and picture some folks giggling on a forum somewhere about their latest creation whenever anti-vax or flat earth etc comes up
Did you mean "#0#", "star-hash-0-star-hash" or perhaps "star-hash-0-hash-star" (which would result in the text of your post)? None of them did anything at all on my phone.
To continue on what you said, some people are going to be 10x programmers on a specific codebase, and go back to average programmer when they start a new job. Some will become a 10x in a year, some will still be average after 5 years.

One thing that I've observed is that productive programmers seem to more often "just do things". For example, when impelmenting a feature, instead of thinking about the feature and a potential refactor at the same time, experimenting a bit about how it could look, they'll just implement the feature, so they are done with their task, and then see from here if the refactor is needed.
I mean yes that too but the Hal is Satoshi camp takes it as a given he was talking to himself in those instances haha.
I don't have an account, what are you gonna do? @ my name?
No, but you’re strongly implying that there’s significantly more chance of making a large return than losing a lot of money, which you have no way of knowing.

The reason the rest of us on the other side of this fence aren’t being as loud is not because we consider the jury to be out - it’s because we’re being responsible with our claims. It’s why no-one is countering you with a claim that it’s all going to zero - as no-one can guarantee that will happen either.

Joining the cryptocurrency pyramid in 2021 and expecting 500% returns is foolish. Could it happen? Sure it could. It doesn’t make it as likely as those inside the religion are implying.
I got cross-vaccinated here in Germany due to being young and getting Astra Zenica as a first dosis. I still had the choice between a second dose of Biontech and AZ, so I read quite a bit about it at the time, and for example one of the leading Virologists in Germany basically said he wouldn't know why it shouldn't work. Basically, the data suggests that there isn't a suprising mechanism that does lead to less protection.
> you can say what you like (as long as you're not inciting crime or violence.)

But whatever reason is to forbid inciting crime or violence is equally valid to forbid inciting firing or un-inviting someone isn’t it?
Even if it isn't psychologically harmful, it is still an annoying distraction in my daily work.

We should confine advertising to a sandbox which users can visit when they feel like it. Then everybody can be happy, not just advertisers.
> In the Japanese case they don't want to imperil the profits from JTI (Japan Tobacco).

Nationalizing the tobacco industry is hardly necessary to create a conflict of interest here. In Ireland a pack of cigarettes costs €14, of which €11 goes to the State [0], €1 to the retailer [1], and €2 to the tobacco company (of which a pretty decent €1 is profit [2]).

Giving the extra euro to the State wouldn't change incentives that much here, even assuming they could run a business with the efficiency of the current multinational giants in the industry.

[0] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/almost-80...

[1] https://ash.org.uk/media-and-news/press-releases-media-and-n... (UK figures, should be close)

[2] https://csimarket.com/Industry/Industry_Profitability.php?in...
Note I never said it was good.

Half of the popular projects around JS are indeed created to workaround its deficiencies, or the JS DOM API limitations.

But working with JS, thanks to those efforts, is now much more agreeable. And the language itself has evolved in the right direction.
It's not really an echo chamber though, or at least it's leaky as hell.

For example, visit from the UK during the Conservative party conference, and you get 'Trending in the UK - #ToryScum' even without logging in, or logging in to a profile that leans right (i.e. that trending 'hashtag' is the opposite of reinforcing an echo chamber for me if I have one) and there's not even anything particular going on that I'm aware of to incite it. It's just a hateful place.
Currently we are looking for interested developers to help contribute. Like everything, we have discord (https://discord.gg/zVuDSgjHFD) and you can check out the code on github (https://github.com/gatsby-tv)
Landau has gotten "good enough" to replace OpenSCAD/OpenJSCAD for my personal 3d printing use-cases, where the main benefit I was looking for as a first step is better reusability via npm packages and a familiar interface via React. E.g. in a non-public project of mine that contains a Raspberry PI case, I can just import a 3D model of the RPI[0] to visually ensure that it correctly fits the case, and easily keep them in sync.

As I don't really have time to maintain it, development usually moves forward when I find time for my 3d printing hobby, so I wouldn't advise anyone to rely on it.

Since the space of alternative React renderers has been explored more and more in the last years (e.g. Remotion[1] for producing videos), I assumed that a "proper version" of Landau would exist by now, but AFAIK there isn't one.

[0]: https://github.com/hobofan/landau-rpi

[1]: https://www.remotion.dev/
Companies and institutions just need to realize that Twitter is not the general population. How many TV shows are regularly trending on twitter but have no audience? How many products are vilified but still sell just fine?

Marketing firms have been selling the lie that they analyze twitter to build campaigns, pr, etc. Their customers just need to realize that it's just BS.
I've never used Nix, but it sounds interesting.

I get the impression it's more used on desktop, but I'm curious if anyone has used it on servers?
> I guess these days some views might look a bit flat but I'm not sure they've improved on the Mario formula since.

^ this

It has been decades, but you can still put people in front of Mario 64 and they will still instantly have fun ... it's just a joy to move Mario around in that game.
I'd argue that there's no reason that these two ideas should be conflated in the same word. Surely languages other than ancient Greek make this distinction?
I agree that it doesn’t seem trumpeted, and the author is really pushing his point quite far, but your point that they don’t seem to take a stand on free speech would appear to be incorrect:

https://handbook.mit.edu/expression
You posted "k.", and then edited it into this comment, but both of those are very low-effort.

If Twitter had no impact on the real world whatsoever, do you think everyone else would be writing so much about it?
Isn't this exactly the world that free speech / pro-liberty advocates want?

I don't have any power to fire someone from their job; I'm not their boss. But I do have the right to make my views about them freely known. That's my right to free speech. And I can also decide whether to patronize their business or not. That's my right to economic freedom - to not be in an authoritarian society where the government tells me what I have to spend my money on. And their boss has the right to decide whether to employ them or not. That's the boss's economic freedom and at-will employment.

If I'm threatening the boss with physical harm (violating the NAP, as some would say), then I'm clearly in the wrong. But if I'm making my opinion known, and their boss agrees, isn't that the intended effect of discourse? What is the point of free speech if there isn't the possibility that people might be influenced by listening to that speech?

I don't see any way to cancel Twitter mobs that doesn't itself uphold cancel culture and destroy liberty.

(In any case, in the article at hand, "Twitter mobs" isn't a fully accurate descriptor. The quoted tweet was from an alum. The ability for alumni to contact their university and make their opinions known - and have their opinions be taken with more weight than those of the general public - has existed long before Twitter and will exist long after.)
One person's annoyance is another person's feature. Growing up, there were times when the coupons in those ads were the only reason we got to eat out from time to time. Going through them discussing what to have was fun.
There are a lot more 1024-bit primes than plausible sentences.
Yes, I'm hoping the latest MS effort on speeding up Python will also tackles that.

The JIT effort is great, but projects like mercurial had to hack lazy import because they are so slow in python.

I wish this can be baked in the language some day: loading half the stdlib to run hello world is not very efficient.
instead of arguing who is the smarter programmer, help each other make more money.
Yes, if you change the question from "is the Bible open" to "is my favorite translation of the Bible open" then there's a different answer.

Are there any copyright restrictions preventing the sort of tools you would love to have?
Well, advance their chosen clients' interests.
That is missing the point; it's not about you are or aren't on Twitter, it's that they are. Twitter encourages contextless "outrage", and things escalate from there. Sometimes justified, sometimes less so.
The amazing thing is that there are still nominally bright people out there who regard dismissing this idiot crap as being "closed-minded".

I do not have to consider every argument presented to me, particularly the ones that run counter to things I know to be true. If someone comes to me with the flat earth theory, I don't need to hear them out. When someone comes to me with pseudoscientific bullshit about "natural immunity" - and then compounds it by pointing out that Covid mainly kills old and sick people, because, you know, fuck those people, right? - I don't need to stroke my beard thoughtfully and give them the benefit of the doubt. I can simply say "Oh, look, a moronic asshole" and go about my day. I don't need any external authority to tell me that I'm smarter and morally superior to this dude. I can figure that out all by myself.

The world is full of a lot of very stupid and very awful people who learned just enough in college to sound reasonable and thoughtful. One of the great skills in life is to be able to recognize their bullshit and dismiss them out of hand and ignore them. You will lose nothing of value by doing so, and you will gain the time you would otherwise put into listening to their idiot babbling.

It's why I no longer debate religious fanatics or free market capitalism fantasists. Life is just too short to talk to dummies, man.
> The great paradox of Atlas Shrugged is this:

Really? As much as I dislike Rand's sententiouness, I don't go around
palming off my own vapid taglines as the author's.
Unless the miners themselves benefit from the work, there would still be an opportunity cost to them, no? If it happens to be useful to someone else that shouldn't matter, right?
I'm having enough difficulty reaching low Kerbin orbit. If anything, I'd like a mod that lets my son and I learn the basics of building and launching rockets with more of an auto-pilot flight mode. We are kern to explore more of the Kerbol system but are having great difficulty with basic missions.
I haven’t used full-on NixOS yet, but I’ve used the Nix package manager quite a lot, and literally all of my forays have been miserable for a variety of different reasons.

To be clear, I love what Nix aspires to be, but it doesn’t deliver on its promises IMO.

As a package author, the Nix language has lots of rough edges, it’s absurdly tedious to figure out how to call various functions (what type of argument does it expect?) because it’s untyped and nixpkgs is poorly documented. There are too many other issues here to unpack.

As a consumer of packages, it’s often unclear what I need to do to install anything but the simplest packages. E.g., installing vs code with some plugins (note that this differs between NixOS and other systems). Further, the CLI interfaces are confusing from a UX perspective IMO, and it’s often unclear what I actually need to use Nix well (homemanager? flakes?) the guidance is confusing and contradictory.

So I don’t hate Nix, but I do have a lot of constructive criticism.
>All it takes is a nosy neighbor to report you

In most of these places you can't be that nosy neighbor too long before increasingly large dead animals show up on your doorstep.

This isn't some nice suburb of SF DC or Boston. Most people frown upon inviting government to show up.
Most probably NixOS Wiki, it's not official but always comes up as the top result because the manual's titles are irrelevent when you're trying to solve a specific issue. The NixOS Wiki is very helpful in a lot of ways (there is more info than in the manuals and you don't have to troubleshoot for hours because you missed activating some options), butit is true that it is sometimes outdated :/
This paper is a good example of why mathematicians often ignore philosophy of maths.

"When a community of mathematicians is small then our modern standards of truth aren't necessary"

Proof is needed to provide confidence in the intuition. Lots of historical examples of mathematical intuition unsupported by rigorous proof going astray.

Also, on p11 it is not enough just to complete the square and derive the formulae for quadratic roots, the substitution on p12 is also necessary. Otherwise, one has just shown the possible form roots can take if they exist, but not that they exist.

i.e. showing A=>B is true, does not show that B is true.
No one is advocating for people to get infected, but many front line workers have already had COVID while they were doing their hero work. Since studies are now showing they have better immunity than those who have received a vaccination, it is foolish to have them vaccinate. If you've had Measles, you aren't required to get a vaccination, so there is a well established precedent.

The politicalization of the vaccine is foolish and unscientific.
It's not that simple. We have a collective action problem. The first mover sticks out like a sore thumb (or tall poppy) and takes all the heat from the mob. If everyone simultaneously became sensible and simultaneously refused to bend to the mob, the problem would go away, but it's difficult for heterogeneous agents to coordinate in this way. Being brave and taking the first step entails a lot of private cost and a lot of public benefit, which is why so few choose to do it.
One example: nix-pills introduces nix-env -i[1] as the third "pill" -- isn't this basically deprecated and never recommended by serious uesrs?

[1]: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/enter-environment.html
S3 has governance policy settings you can use to prevent deleting and overwriting files/buckets.