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> As an engineer don't get any of this drama.

Since the rise of social media at least a decade ago, tech has seen all kinds of "dramas".

> Can someone summarize what this is all about? From what I had the patience to read people are getting censored on the Nix chat?

Any summary is going to be biased/motivated by who's doing the summarising. -- There are some summaries in some of the other HN threads. (See some top level comments).

e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115567 this comment seems to summarize the concerns held by people in the letter.

What seems to have drawn the most heat is "Anduril (builds military weapons) sponsors Nix" and "moderation doesn't ban bad people".

The latter draws a lot of heated discussion, since people frustrated with the moderators both have a "good vs evil" fighting mentality, & a desire for broad powers to ban. (Or on the flipside, I guess: since there are so many bad actors & the moderators don't have power to ban them).

FWIW, I think the term "suspended" would be more appropriate than "censored".

> How does this effect Nix on a technical level? Was the censoring related specially to technical debates?

The moderation actions have never been over technical posts.

Some of the open letter signatories have opted to no longer contribute to Nix. One of these was a top-5 contributor to the Nixpkgs repository.

Anduril is a gold sponsor of the NixCon 2024 event.

To the extent that the letter signatories are a significant chunk of nixpkgs contributors, these contributions are lost. -- Perhaps to the extent that most people agree (or disagree) with stuff like in the letter, might discourage people from joining the community depending on how the moderation gets done.
It's heavily biased and therefore easily tricked. I uploaded a photo from NYC.

The graffiti on the wall is a clue that the photo was taken in Detroit. The vegetation in the background is also consistent with the climate of Detroit.
People are always going to be rude on the internet. It gives people a sense of anonymity which allows them to care less about the feelings of people they are communicating with.

There are 3 options to dealing with this.

1. Never go on the internet.

2. Accept that people will be rude, and develop ways to ignore/deal with it rationally.

3. Complain about it, and expect something to change.

Looks like the author is choosing option 3.

Why are you bringing sex/gender into this? It has nothing to do with it.
It makes logical sense - if they look over their staff and search for commonalities amongst successful employees, and trends like school or CS degree and GPA stand out, then it's logical to assume that will predict further success and thin the pool. It's a jerk move, sure, but it can be both.
No Karen.
Wasn't ChatGPT already doing searches for you when relevant? For example if you asked for recent news? I can't get it to do it again for some reason it will share month old publications right now.
The Pareto can be applied recursively. If 20% of the people have 80% of the wealth, then 20% of them will have 80% of that 80% (64%) and so on
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The members of the "Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government" were the same ones who voted in favor of the "antisemitism bill".

I support Israel (10/7 was horrible and I know a person who died then) and the First Amendment, but this hearing is absolutely hypocrisy.

If you are a free speech absolutist, then federal anti-discrimination laws are themselves antithetical to the idea of free speech.

Conversely, if you are opposed to hate speech and disinformation, then you agree that moderation is needed, which itself can be viewed as a violation of free speech as an absolutist.
It makes you wonder if there's a retirement-encouraged culture for inactive partners.

Which is probably what you'd want in a high-performance firm, less everyone look at the absent top level extractors and it turn into a law firm.
OnlyFans has been around since 2016. The entertainers in the article are talking about a steep decline in the past ~year.
I'd love to know more about what this is actually testing, or what tests it subsumes, it's not really clear to me from the article.

I.e. I get a skin check every year (people take pictures instead of a machine, but its about the same), and it's about €50.
Getting a bloodwork is free when asking my family doctor, or when donating blood. This is no MRI nor CT scan, so what _is_ it checking for $500?

The article talks of circulation, does this replace some of those doppler vascular tests, perhaps?
Screen.studio can also record your iPhone’s screen if you connect it to your Mac with a cable.
Where will 17 and 13 Year Periodical Cicada Broods emerge next?
I'd say just go with GPA.
The funny thing is that while the "big move" population likes to say that they wanted to get away from The Algorithm, what actually convinced them to move was the threat that the Algorithm might change (due to Musk's takeover).
well, I mean, there's a review process too, if it's done right? Something business critical (like code, keys, and I'd include DNS records) should still need two pairs of eyeballs and a process before any changes are made.

DevOps doesn't necessarily mean unrestricted control.
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I've only ever heard of Jane Street because they're one of the few companies that did OCaml.
You said 'we' and would probably split a bottle of wine at lunch.
Their revenue per employee is probably similar to revenue of a single mid size company.
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There are a lot of situations where you do need more context of the repository. If you do have a problem in a small function then yes, you could just copy/paste the code to any LLM and it could help you, but you can't do more than that.

Usually when you work with code you work with other people's code, especially in companies, you either need to understand it (which requires many files awareness), or you need a junior to understand the project, or you need system design level advice, or you need to know that if you make a certain change, it wouldn't create bugs that you'll not be aware of at the moment, and the list goes on. Pasting bits of code in a gpt just gets you so far, at least that was my case, so I built it for myself at the beginning. It does help a lot.
Honestly no idea what you're on about.
Yes, name brand bread has gone up in price. So don't buy name brand bread.
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I can tell you that a piece of trillion dollar pie does not taste boring.
Old machines typically didn’t use ceramic capacitors, though. You’d be limited to film or more likely electrolytic capacitors. They only get so small and are typically leaded, especially for older stuff.
I mean I wouldn't do it every day, but if I went to, say, dinner in the evening or Sunday lunch (and obviously didn't have to drive) I could drink a bottle of wine over the course of a 2-3 hour meal easily.
In what way would the Blub paradox be at play?

The paradox being: developer familiar with programming languages of level of power N doesn't recognize that languages of level N+ are better (more powerful expressively), only that N- are lesser.
> and the thousands under them are getting salaries.

The difference is that these thousands also get to invest in Jane Street, which seems a pretty profitable investment (70% margins, etc).
Not according to the data.
> >"here let me search.chatgpt that for you"

Why would you say it like that though? You don't set "let me google.com that for you"

In the same way you don't say "let me chat.openai it for you", likely search.chatgpt.com will just become the new default interface to chatgpt, and "to chatgpt" something will mean to look it up on search.chatgpt.com
If people die before reproducing because they cannot weigh risks, that should result in a population that is better at weighing risk in the long run.
Correct me if I'm wrong but can't you put a Rc<RefCell<OffsetAllocator>> in your std::alloc::Allocator implementation for interior mutability?

This make a non-thread safe allocator, with the (desired) side effect of making anything allocating from it (e.g. Vec) a !Send.

Or is there a requirement that Allocators must be Sync and Send?
To your party point. It also wouldn't account for time. 5 drinks over the course of a 4-5 hour party is different than 5 drinks in an hour.
A "social lunch" is very different from "lunch". Arguably a "social lunch" is a kind of day-drinking party, in my experience.
I guess, I live in the wrong country and wrong profession if I want to make that much of money. This is an stupidly gigantic amount of money. I know that I will not make this much gross any year of my life, actually this is around 7-8 years of my gross annual salary.. I know US vs UE etc. Still this is crazy. Not sure how UE salary in the same field/category compares.
Occasional excessive drinker reporting in. You're right, "excessive drinking" is difficult to quantify, and any vagueness of definition will leave us with what I would call "vagueness" or "incompleteness" of data. Not "inaccuracy" though, because I think we can understand the limitations of reporting, and the trends are likely correct.
The world is small, I regularly stumble across my own work or discussion thereof. I don't hate reading replies, I just hate reading replies that suck, and you can't tell if a reply sucks until after you've read it.
If you deal with 50 people one is always a tad strange. As the numbers grow the weirdest person gets progressively weirder. Around 100 k some say they want to kill or hurt you, around a million some definitely want to, at 100 million one is definitely going to try it. You can get there faster by having a unpopular opinions.
I'm glad they're testing this. A vaccine approach always has the risk of hitting healthy tissue as well with the immune response. And when that tissue is brain tissue...

Testing is necessary anyway to get insurance companies to pay for something. They like to deny coverage, and if the treatment is not proved to work that's an easy excuse.
I don't know... I have game developers, authors, scientists, musicians and all sorts of interesting people on my feed, and I see a wide variance in discussion, despite the likely political commonalities. I suppose if you can only find value in online community through political debate and heterodoxy, most well-curated communities will seem hostile to you, since most people aren't looking for shock and chaos.
> Sweden

Good

> Rural area

good

> [pin in the center of Stockholm, the most urban area in Sweden]

ouch.. not so good.
Just today, I was having difficulty with printing in AutoDesk software. Copilot(Previw) was right there at the bottom, I opened it and asked for steps to solve the issue. It told, in steps, exactly what to do, which worked as instructed. Solving my issue. The original article from AutoDesk was also linked. My immediate thinking was search is doomed.

Compare this to what I would have to do with google. Open browser, type the query, guess which of the top 10 results are likely to answer the issue I was having. Click few link to open them in new tab. Read though it to see if the correct problem was being discussed. If not see another link in the top 10 list. Repeat.

I even thought where in that interface, Microsoft could place the future ads. It's totally in the realm.

EDIT: At this point, ChatGPT is basically old school "I am feeling lucky" on steroids.
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I know some people who permanently move from Spain or Italy to Czechia. In their own words, there was no work in their home country. They tried super hard to get a job at home, but came up with nothing. Here they have some sort of non-technical office jobs in tech companies and are quite happy with the pay.
I am talking about a social lunch, not a working lunch (i.e. it's no longer the norm like it used to be on Friday lunchtimes in the City).
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There is a fair difference between the American social norms and the American health care system.
why do they drink so much there? boredom?
Won't it warn you if you put the public key in your authorized_keys as shown here: https://www.terminal.shop/?
You're very close to hitting the main point that people miss: Posting on the internet is a global audience and that means writing with a global audience in mind.

It's a thousand times more taxing than a local audience because you lose all colloquialisms and points of common reference. It's more taxing than even writing for a newspaper because even in the worst case of national coverage, it's rare that an article author would have to consider the global perspective (though still required for certain types of news).

This whole article is just the author chafing at WANTING to use social media like ne has a local audience, while being FORCED to use social media with a global audience in mind. I very much empathize, in the same way I empathize with product manual writers or software documentation authors. Having to come up with every way some dickhead is going to misunderstand you is a massive undertaking. And THEN you have to come up with all the ways that some dickhead will TRY to misunderstand you. To guard against all of them is impossible, so you just have to shore up as many sides as you can and take the criticism as it comes. That is what it means to write for a global audience, and its exhausting.

So I don't blame anyone at all for saying "this isn't my job, fuck this."

Personally, I just write how I want to write and let the chips fall where they may. I don't begrudge anyone for just not writing at all, and leaving all the chips alone. But I also don't find their intention to do so particularly worth description; especially not in long form. It's not like its a binary choice. When you have the spoons to troll any troll that comes at you, and engage earnestly with anyone who is trying to engage with you - no matter how misguided - then have at it! Make your posts and enjoy or muddle through as applies. And on days when you don't want to deal with it? Just shut the fuck up. Don't say anything. Don't reply to people. Don't engage at all.

It's that "easy".
The second definition of "anarchy" according to Google:

> the organization of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation, without political institutions or hierarchical government; anarchism.

Sounds like a perfect fit.
> Take me seriously, you fools!

That’s what’s I’m hearing from you. And my answer is no.
Rivaled the price of gold and was used on the most important figures eg the Virgin Mary - until a reward was offered for a synthetic version - https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-a-brief-histor...
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And the beautiful thing about domains is that they're hierarchical, so you can arbitrarily split your trust boundaries.
I should have added "each".
I think the Japanese get drunk more easily on less alcohol, but yeah the number of falling down drunk people I saw in Tokyo was oddly high.
It should also be a reminder for Dropbox that acquiring a product then allowing it to languish risking security vulnerabilities -- will, appropriately, have negative brand perception implications that affect your main product too.
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plus i can take my time, i can reconsider. i can browse the full menu at leisure, i don't need to know what i want before i start ordering.
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Yes, unfortunately. In the past the London Mayoral and London Assembly votes were Proportional Representation — but that changed this year.

General Elections in the UK have always been FPTP.
What is it? Cloudflare's "protection" has blocked me from being able to see half the Internet lately.
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>And the stripper index is down because their market is oversaturated aka "onlyfans overload".

The article talks about a steep decline in the past ~year / post-covid. OnlyFans has been around since 2016. They are also fairly distinct. Not sure you can pin it all on OF.
I can assure you it’s much higher. Much higher.
> literally had to explain to one of these girls how insane the price was

If that’s the going rate that’s the going rate. My plumber quoted me $17,000 in labor for something that was probably a days work for a team of two (and $5,000 in materials). That’s about $500-1,000 an hour. My dad was like “that’s insane for a plumber.” And I’m like “you told everyone to go to college and become baristas, so that’s what plumbers cost now.”
Looks great but I don't have a Google account, and don't want one. A lot of people on here are probably privacy conscious, and would be put off by the mandatory Google sign in.
Out of context: what is sex?
Is it physical satisfaction or romantic connection?
It sounds to me like "Reply Guy" is being used as shorthand for, you are not supporting me in either position, emotional needs...

Perhaps we have different concepts of what we use social media for, some use it as a para-social support system and others are as a tool to debate and examine different positions.
> Enums produce values. Tag-only unions 'produce' types (without values).

Source? Is this something that is widely accepted, or just how you think enums should be defined.

My understanding is you are saying (using c++ as an example since it has both types) an `enum` is a "true" enum, while an `enum class` somehow isn't?
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We keep making more intensive games and applications that tax the gpu more. LLMs have already kicked off another 5 year cycle of upgrades before they run full speed on consumer hardware
Nope it is not.
There is a CEO on top who has the power to fire anyone. There are department heads and middle managers. There is an org hierarchy. There are performance targets and reviews. Nothing about it is "voluntary cooperation". This is how every large company runs.
You can create an F# class library and use it with Uno, it's all .NET. We just don't have a dotnet Template for it just yet.
NOAA uses XMPP for sending out current weather conditions and alerts via either satellite or an XMPP server on the internet. I think the service is called NWWS.
That said the name Vivian does derive from the Latin name Vivianus, which comes from the Latin word vivus, meaning "alive"
On the ballots today, the best logo (read: branding) was that of Count Binface.
The 'most severe' category for problem drinking is usually ridiculous to me in nearly every study on this subject I've seen, especially in more recent decades.

Lumping together the guy who usually drinks a 6-pack on Fridays with the lady who puts away a fifth of vodka every single day makes no sense to me. There should be much more granularity.
Feel free to tune out. I find your arguments unconvincing.

> It's like when people say, "America has no culture," or something similar.

I do not live in the US so I couldn't care less about what people say there.
I could say the same about San Diego. Only 20% yeah right it’s got to be closer to 50%.

Except we’re both just offering anecdotes. Excessive drinkers are more conspicuous to begin with, and nobody is telling stories about the overwhelming majority of people who don’t drink excessively like “and then my mom didn’t drink again.” (Unless of course she’s a recovering alcoholic).
That… seems excessive. Is it just security theater or actually useful somehow?
It is and it is. My dad died of a GBM in 2022, 17 months after his diagnosis. If he had had another 19 months, I'd have made him breakfast this morning.

I find it much easier to sympathize with people's desire for additional time with terminally-ill loved ones now.
I'd be surprised if they hold 20% of non-crypto assets.