skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It may still be helpful to delay the counting of these votes to further the narrative "look, Trump won by a large margin the first day, then all these mail in votes come in a week later and the winner is now Biden? Obvious mail fraud!"

Yeah, other people are seeing that as his strategy, too:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/opinion/trump-election-da...

> There’s no mystery about what President Trump intends to do if he holds a lead on election night in November. He’s practically broadcasting it.

> First, he’ll claim victory. Then, having spent most of the year denouncing vote-by-mail as corrupt, fraudulent and prone to abuse, he’ll demand that authorities stop counting mail-in and absentee ballots. He’ll have teams of lawyers challenging counts and ballots across the country.

> He also seems to be counting on having the advantage of mail slowdowns, engineered by the recently installed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Fewer pickups and deliveries could mean more late-arriving ballots and a better shot at dismissing votes before they’re even opened, especially if the campaign has successfully sued to block states from extending deadlines. We might even see a Brooks Brothers riot or two, where well-heeled Republican operatives stage angry and voluble protests against ballot counts and recounts.

> If Trump is leading on election night, in other words, there’s a good chance he’ll try to disrupt and delegitimize the counting process. That way, if Joe Biden pulls ahead in the days (or weeks) after voting ends — if we experience a “blue shift” like the one in 2018, in which the Democratic majority in the House grew as votes came in — the president will have given himself grounds to reject the outcome as “fake news.”

> The only way to prevent this scenario, or at least, rob it of the oxygen it needs to burn, is to deliver an election night lead to Biden. This means voting in person. No, not everyone will be able to do that. But if you plan to vote against Trump and can take appropriate precautions, then some kind of hand delivery — going to the polls or bringing your mail-in ballot to a “drop box” — will be the best way to protect your vote from the president’s concerted attempt to undermine the election for his benefit.
Yea spreadsheets were useful before and even more useful now. Agreed, they could be misused but what can't be misused ?
I’ll unhelpfully note that I could swear I’ve seen something that does what you describe, and thought that this project was what I recalled - alas.
> It was at best a business experiment with a socially progressive slant

I appreciate you specifically pointing out "socially progressive", rather than just "progressive", because corporations often use social progressiveness, (relatively cheap), as a mask for economic conservatism.
That is not true, see https://www.newsweek.com/these-states-invalidate-mail-ballot...
That site is annoying. Popups. Fake "notifications".

As a bug tracker, JIRA seems to be OK. As a development system, not clear.
The financial reports of Waste Management Inc are slightly less pessimistic :)
the focus of nix in the build process is the ideal of if you have three build inputs bash 4, gcc 4.8.<patch>, libc <whatever version> , and the source of the package being the same(hash-wise) , the output is very much(for most cases) going to be the same, since nix itself(even on non-nixos) uses very little of the system stuff, it won't be using the system libc, gcc, bash, ncurses, etc, it will use its own that is lock to a version down to the hash, it follow a target(with exact spec) -> output , where as Dockerfile more resemble, of a build that is output first , and not doing build very often, this is why Nix have their own CI/CD system, Hydra to allow ensure daily or even hourly safety of reproducible builds
How long do they wait for the mails to arrive?
Let's assume this virus will be endemic. Why would we assume that the second infection would be any worse than the first? Our immune system is highly adaptive and generally does very well. In fact, we've now got good evidence that there is cross-protection from antibodies and t-cells from other coronaviruses in circulation.
Usually Jira sucks because it's not setup correctly to support teams' workflows, instead it's used to impose workflows on teams.

Jira can be as heavy or lightweight as you make it, but most of the suffering I see is because the way teams work isn't being supported by the Jira owners/admins.
Yeah, if only there was a plugin for code sync between editors. It would help to be more engaged from both parties.
Not when conditions are attached to the payment or donation.
Then fair play for Canonical to get revenue streams from enterprise?

From my perspective the primary motivation seems rather simple in minimizing the maintenance costs/testing of having to publish software for 5-6 distributions.

That to me seems more plausible than evil mustache twisting capitalist reasons.
Nuclear power is also a far more feasible alternative to the "wind power and solar panels" pipe dream. I'm part German, and the German obsession with "green energy" and fear of nuclear power is leading to dependence on Russia and more coal plants. France, on the other hand, is thriving with nuclear.
Not sure if this helps, but Thinkst is a South African company that provides "security services".

Maybe they mean that most security providers didn't see it coming. Some people would think that the NSA are part of the set of security providers and hence, in a way, it's not that you don't see something coming, it's simply that you don't see them as the aggressor.

If you change from the topic of "computer security" to "nuclear weapons" then perhaps you can see how intelligence gathering, obfuscation and subterfuge is perhaps not an inherently offensive thing. For nuclear weapons, I think the only objective is to prevent nuclear explosions. Some people think the US's role is to stop nuclear war; some people think the US is part of the problem.

My personal take on the topic is that Snowden's main role was to challenge the idea that the NSA is keeping the peace.
Hm. To me it sounds like they are ranting about micro controlling by too much detail in the jira. Sure, if you have to close 6 tickets for the same line of thought, it's annoying. So don't do that.

And on top of that, the new jira automation + smart commits make stuff much smoother. Assign yourself a ticket, push some stuff with the ticket ID to auto-progress to <in progress>, commit something with "EXA-042 #close" and it auto-closes. Took us some time to get there, but now it's a smooth todo-list for the team.
Fork a Spotify Playlist
We're pretty locked into the JetBrains licensing scheme, but I'll look for stuff related to LiveShare in IntelliJ
Additionally in the UK, the police often infiltrates protest organisations. They are often near the very top. The official line is that they cannot use entrapment but they are encouraged to help out and assist activists.

Any activist movement should consider themselves hacked and should look at.amd around the leadership for the site of the vulnerability.
No, France uses light water reactors, just like the rest of the world.

They also reprocess their spent fuel, but due to complicated sciency reasons you can only do that a few times when you're burning it in thermal reactors.

France had plans to move to a closed cycle, which would improve fuel utilization by a couple of orders of magnitude, but their breeder reactor program (required for the closed cycle) has largely stalled (see Phenix, SuperPhenix, and ASTRID which was recently cancelled before it even got off the drawing board).

And no, breeder reactors per se aren't about making weapons-grade material except in the feverish dreams of Greenpeace.
There is no difference between Epic or any other game store in this regard. The PC is no monopoly and no walled garden.
The actual quote, without breathless editorializing, is:

"The irony is that it’s digital social media that allows this kind of titillating, oversimplistic explanation of, 'OK, there’s just an evil person, and that explains all of this.' And when you have [ ] encrypted, there is no way to know what it is. I personally believe government should not allow those types of lies or fraud or child pornography."

I've removed Wired's additions within brackets, and suddenly it doesn't seem at all clear Gates is talking about end-to-end encryption directly. It might be said that is the only way to accomplish his wish, but when I first read the article I thought he could as easily be talking about legal remedies as anything else.
I read this as talking about a specific spreadsheet, not the general concept of spreadsheets. Like a specific excel file someone made long ago but it hasn't been updated in a long time and it's difficult to figure out if its up to date or not. It could be worded better.
That presumes a small number of options. They could just support a large number of processors and we're all good.
I didn't presume any of those things and I'm not sure where any of those ideas come from. A program can write to shared memory that is read by a separate program. That doesn't take a debugger and it doesn't take 'ports'. I'm actually not sure what you mean by ports.
But at what expense? Does Jira ever frustrate you? Imagine how it frustrates developers that hate working with overly complex time-sink software. I can change my email client. I can change my text editor to my liking. I can change nearly any other tool I use, but when a company uses Jira, I'm trapped using something that mostly gets in my way.
The JIRA hate is well deserved. I don’t think I can get past how slow it is compared to other offerings in the market (eg clubhouse). It’s UI is horrible and unintuitive. Search is difficult. Using it to track work is manual, it adds too much overhead.

I ask that you try clubhouse or another tool that has more modern UIs. You feel that JIRA next gen is great only compared to JIRA classic. Next gen is still years behind in UX.
Not really. We have about 20 servers. We spend around one person-day per month maintaining them.
If they'd ever got around to actually open-sourcing the thing like they kept promising they would, I expect people would've been more on-board with it.

I would've been happy to pay a modest subscription for a fully open-source Pocket stack with better archive management.
> This is an argument for not having mail delivery being controlled by elected politicians.

That wouldn't solve anything. If it's not controlled by elected politicians, it could still be controlled by others with political or ideological motivations, and it would be harder to hold those people accountable.

The real solution is political checks and balances and more oversight.
Snap is auto-updating and you can't stop it [0].

I actually liked the idea of the snaps on paper, especially combined with Ubuntu Core for running lightweight VMs (via LXD). But the tone on that exchange and the "we know best" attitude put me off it.

I have an Ubuntu 20.04 installed for tests on one of my home machines, and from time to time I catch doing who knows what. What tips me off is seeing the drive light going crazy when I'm doing basically nothing. And for some reason it doesn't log anything while doing this...

[0] https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
Of course it does. For a while, external people could even log the issues themselves.

Having used it, I don’t understand all the hate. I love the Sprint boards, the drag and drop and the JQL. Of course I deactivate everything that tries to help me, it’s kind of like Clippy: they « make it easier for you » by hiding all the fields, or opening an issue by hiding the search table. Would be easier to understand if Jira only had 3 screens: Issue view, Search and Sprint board...
Yet another benefit to regenerative braking!
No matter who you are, having to maintain a patched version of Snap just to use your own software is absolutely ridiculous.

I knew things were bad around Snap, but I didn't think they were attacking their feet with such fire power.
As in when Apple iTunes movies and books were suddenly shut down in China after six months of legal operation, with no explanation?

If you're Chinese, you'll appreciate the casual contempt openly expressed in the frequently referenced epithet "laiwai" 老外. And ask any foreign businessman in China if they're discriminated against.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/technology/apple-no-longe...
This is part of why I tend to only use images that only build from a small set of well-established base images like scratch, alpine, debian and occasionally ubuntu. Those base images can also be handled in the same way. For any exception, you can always do the same.

A bonus to this is that you no longer have the risks of systems breaking because of Dockerhub or quay.io (which I haven't seen mentioned here yet, btw) being offline.
Yes, auto-updates are built into snap. Also, the "solutions" to disable it are pretty much workarounds [1]. All this looks like just what made me stop using windows 10.

[1]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/930593/how-to-disable-autore...
Try clubhouse
I think that implementing a tool "like Jira, only fast" would be a quite interesting engineering challenge. With the amount of configurability which Jira allows, it is not easy to come up with something performant. Maybe a compilation-like approach would work.
Artic Strategy
> A language that compiles to C does not inherit all of C's problems, and doesn't "punt" on it for undefined behavior.

ATS avoids some things; you shouldn't be able to do the silly memory-unsafe parts.

Stuff like dividing by zero is permissible by default but can be avoided.
> Grades are all that matter

I think this has shifted somewhat to the standardized tests mattering quite a bit now these days.

Should we not consider alternative methods or options for education? What should everything be concentrated into one public model that follows one national standard?
That sounds like a great way to piss off someone high up in the post office/local delivery people at the post office.

I would be reluctant to post such a thing under my name - only aggregated and anonymized data.
There's no technical reason for iOS to not support alternative browsers from the start.

Why would Apple allow other browser engines that are slower, less power efficient and don't respect user’s privacy at least as much as Webkit to run natively on iOS?

Apple continues to add features to block ads from tracking users across the web and to lessen the impact of fingerprinting by trackers.

Certainly Google has no interest in adhering to these principles if it were able to run natively on iOS—they're the only major browser on macOS that allows unchecked fingerprinting and ad tracking.
And how many calendars use it? Lemme give you a hint, it's the same number as the the year in question

Also there is no day 0 of the month, no month zero of the year. It's how calendars work.
I think this issue is vitally important for our democracy.
Every single project I've been on in the past 15 years (public/private sector, many verticals, different companies), when push comes to shove, people resort to tracking everything on simple spreadsheets or punch lists. And it works just fine (although this results in more communication which is anyway true when things go wrong or overdue, regardless of tools).

So I'm really wondering how much utility a lot of these tools bring (I LOVED Jira in 2006 when it was a glorified table with powerful filters, but I was using it roughly like a smart spreadsheet). I feel a lot of what they add is just busy work that you have the luxury to play with in normal times, but when you don't have the luxury to do busy work, it just slows you down without much benefit.

What have other people's experiences been? An emergency can be a great filter to show you what matters and what doesn't.
That rubs me so much the wrong way.

If they ever terminated services for me because I commented on performance I would be the most loud person on the internet about it.

I would go to every review site, every comment board, and filter every title on every news aggregator and post as much statistics as I could about performance and issues that I had with it. Then I would state that they had terminated my services for commenting about it, with the proof.

I would be totally radicalised against them, it's absolutely insane that they even have this as a ToS, but if they ever enforced it I'm sure many people would salt the fucking earth.
I've noticed that more people complain intensely about stuff that's not going away - Jira, Spreadsheets, Twitter...
Just an hypothesis, maybe some Rust apps that can't be compiled with the toolchain in Debian/ubuntu have no pother choice then use snap/flatpack (so maybe at that time in an LTS ditro apt would not have worked)
F1 Score
My memory is foggy, but there was something about dbus which rendered it unsuitable for systems without a running GUI on X/Wayland. Not sure what though, it's been years.
They've launched the Epic game store which cuts distribution fees significantly. How is that not beneficial to consumers?
NSA surveillance was a joke in the Simpsons Movie in 2007.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2CVTH3_Bf-I
my feeling to this day is, to paraphrase Churchill, that Jira is the worst possible project management software, except for everything else.
Not to mention, while it needs a solution, long term storage doesn't have to be solved today. Or tomorrow, or even fifty years from now. Climate change on the other hand will not wait fifty years for us to get around to facing it.

I'd much rather my children face the narrow technical challenge of long term storage, as opposed to global migration crises, drought, and famine.
It does https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/JSWCLOUD/issues/JSWCLOUD...
Did the villagers of Iqrit and Biram start a war of aggression?
In the US we have such a lame standard of anti-trust.

For example, you could have two businesses with 100% market share in an industry, and have a contract between the two stating "we will not provide benefits, or salaries exceeding $X, to employees in this sector" and you have zero anti-trust issues because it doesn't increase consumer prices.

Abysmal.
> So why do companies use a tool that works for a few PMs and business leaders when dozens or hundreds of engineers hate it?

In fact, Jira is so infinitely configurable it reflects the org chart and culture of the company using it. Most Jira complaints I hear are more about that person's company than the tool. That said, the tool definitely doesn't help as much as it should (largely because engineers don't make purchase decisions).
This is easy to explain if you think of it as a business decision. Why would anyone pay $30000 for a custom "enterprise edition" snap store[1] -- which among other features restores full control of updates -- if anyone could easily set up their own snap stores?

[1]https://ubuntu.com/pricing/devices
Broad ToSs and zero consumer rights are full laissez faire capitalism. So I would argue this is the most capitalist thing in a ToS.
OP sounds like someone who's unhappy working on big software projects. That's understandable. But once you're on a big project, you can't keep it all in your head. You can't make your own clever adjustments when problems arise without documenting everything and then taking it through channels.

For what it's worth, sales people have the exact same complaint. They can get testy, too, about executives using software-oversight tools to take away the soul of what they really do. Allow me to change 15% of the words in this piece, and it could become a rebuke of Salesforce and its siblings, as applied to large sales organizations. So the brief allusion to sales seemed way off base.

Process can be exasperating, until you've worked in a big place where there's no coherent process.
this is a PDF if anyone needs to know.

the gist...

>> Residing at the intersection between the U.S.
homeland and two critical theaters, Indo-Pacific and
Europe, the Arctic is an increasingly vital region for
U.S. national security interests.<<
This is from Atlassian's ToS

(d) incorporate any Cloud Products into a product or service you provide to a third party;

does this mean that I can't integrate JIRA into a ticket tracking workflow that I build for my product with IFTTT that creates a new ticket when someone sends an email to a support alias?

(e) interfere with or otherwise circumvent mechanisms in the Cloud Products intended to limit your use;

(f) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, translate or otherwise seek to obtain or derive the source code, underlying ideas, algorithms, file formats or non-public APIs to any Cloud Products, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law (and then only upon advance notice to us);

(g) remove or obscure any proprietary or other notices contained in any Cloud Product;

Fair enough.

(h) use the Cloud Products for competitive analysis or to build competitive products;

Sure, I mean this is hard to enforce but if the team at Trello was using JIRA while making Trello, Atlassian could just say "hey - stop, no like".

(i) publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Cloud Products;

Seriously? I really didn't believe when I saw parent say you are not allowed to comment on performance of the product but I stand corrected. I will not comment on performance of any Atlassian product ever, ever ever. You got me Atlassian, this is what I get for not reading ToS before clicking Accept.

(j) encourage or assist any third party to do any of the foregoing.

Ok.

[0] https://www.atlassian.com/legal/cloud-terms-of-service
Interesting. Can you drop some links to your favorites?
That's exactly my point. This article is critiquing ancient technology which can be tampered with by the ruling government that limits democratic involvement without proposing obvious remedies involving superior technology. The hidden subtext here through the intellectual dishonesty of its exclusion is that this technology would allow a little bit TOO much involvement from the electorate which is contrary to the entire design of American representative democracy which is purpose built to prop up candidates captured by big money corporate donors and PACs.
I should include more detailed instructions.
Dependencies include: eigen, gcc, clang, and (harder) the Intel compilers, as well as a recent version of Julia.

If you have those, you should be able to instantiate the Manifest:
https://github.com/chriselrod/LoopVectorization.jl/tree/mast...
and then `include("/path/to/LoopVectorization/benchmark/driver.jl")` to run the benchmarks.

There are other examples. For example, for code as simple as the dot products, clang shows some pretty bad performance characteristics while gcc needed a few infrequently used compiler options to do well there.

Image filtering / convolutions without compile-time known kernel sizes are another example that showed dramatic speedup.

When talking about optimized gemm, LoopVectorization currently only does register tiling. Therefore its matmul performance will continue to degrade beyond 200x200 or so on my deskop. An optimized BLAS implementation would still need to take care of packing arrays to fit into cache, multithreading, etc.

Maybe I should add pluto.
I did test Polly before, but it took several minutes to compile the simple c file, and the only benchmark that seemed to improve was the gemm without any transposes. And it still didn't perform particularly well there -- worse than the Intel compilers, IIRC.

PRs are welcome.
Adding Sorbet to a Rails Monolith
Yeah, but this isn't really any worse than APT or RPM at the moment. More like, if they can change the text file, you've got bigger problems.
Their primary product is the Mozilla brand and the browser, not a CSS or rendering engine. The innards can be swapped out and even the entire browser could and probably will be.

Always follow the money. If they got rid of these people it likely means that:

a) Rust is not part of Mozilla's future any more

b) Gecko's future doesn't look too bright either