skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RHEL and CentOS 7 are using kernel 3.10.x even in 7.9 OS versions. That is, that's the nominal version that's distributed by the system and has all sorts of backported patches, especially but not exclusively for bugs with CVEs. For example, 3.10.0-1160.11.1.el7 is relatively recent, being updated 30 November 2020.

Yeah, it's possible to download any version of the kernel sources and build it, but the chances of having a system that boots into a 5.x.x kernel under RHEL or CentOS is pretty small.
You are technically correct.

The right term in this case is an oligopoly.

Semantically it makes little difference though.
> These companies are unnecessary dinosaurs from a bygone era.

Elsevier is a very diverse company with a lot of product offerings that are not antiquated. People here tend to just think of them as a journal publication company, but they are much more than that. The company sells (through subsidiaries) a lot of IT products to governments and law enforcement around the world.

They, as a small example, offer a service that allow LEO to perform comprehensive background & arrest record checks on individuals in custody.
People who understand what the company needs to do and can be trusted / expected to execute on that, regardless of how things were done in the past.
It's a variety of factors. Information leaking is one, but a big one is the lack of control. DoD does not control any significant part of the present cellular network, so it might be useful but it oughtn't be part of your critical systems.
Break up Twitter into what exactly? It is a message posting service. What are you planning to remove from it exactly? The advertisements?
"Phonebooks were like DNS for telephone numbers."

thanks I'll be stealing this quote 100%.
That's not the case. Looking for |z|>t implicitly assumes the distribution is symmetric and unimodal for a start. As in, the method would break if those assumptions were violated.

Non-parametric means more than just avoiding talk of distributions.
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I can understand why you might feel that way. At the same time, I think censorship on an infrastructure level sets a very strong precedent. I think infrastructure players should refrain completely from that kind of action.
Hello!

Clear statement of what the project does:

An Open source maintainer uploads a task to code relay
(like document this function or fix this GitHub Issue).

Code Relay assigns this task to a contributor.

The contributor makes incremental progress on the task.
Maybe the contributor splits the task into two subtasks, or writes one line of code.

Then code relay assigns the task to different contributor.

Like a relay race, the task gets passed on-and-on to different contributors.

Why I made it:

I made this because I sat down at my computer one day
to work on open source and it took me 5 hours to:

- find a repo with a good-first-bug that I could do,

- clone the repo, build it, fix the bug

- make a pull request, fix pull-request, and
get the pull request accepted,

I want to make contributing to open source and quick
and painless as possible.

I want to live in a world where you can open your phone,
make a contribution (no matter how small) in 5 minutes and be done.

I want to live in a world where Open source maintainers
don't burn-out and let their projects die.

I want them to be able get the extra contributions they need without becoming a community manager/full-time marketer.

So that's why I made Code Relay.

Disclaimers:

I don't believe that Code Relay will replace fork-pull-request workflow,
or the contributor-maintainer setup. I do believe that it can supplement
both, make them stronger.

Likewise, I don't think Code Relay will be the most efficient use of a
programmers' time. The constant context switching alone will slow everything down,
and one maintainer with knowledge of a project can work faster than
10 programmers working for 5 minutes at time.

However, Code Relay's strength is that it attracts programmers that otherwise would not contribute to open source. My hypothesis is that 1000 programmers working for 5 minutes at time, is faster than 1 maintainer. It's a matter of scale.
The biggest oppurtunity would be to allow assigning money for tasks and solutions. Like there are so many really good projects with a lot of open issues and good ideas on things to improve a library/framework/project. The ability to say, hey, i am the project owner and i would love to add this cool feature to my library which is complicated, you can donate for this feature, like crowdfunding for software.

Or the other case. I have created many pull requests in the past which had been only a few lines to fix an existing bug but they did never merge it. Sometimes i received notifications for years from other people asking why it is not meged and they had to fork (and maintain) it to fix this bug. Just saying here are 50$ if you merge it would be a life-saver. No more maintaining a fork just to fix a bug which is not a priority of the owner who prefers adding more and more features.

My point is open source does not need to be free work from the maintainer. A platform like github could change the game by allowing people to get a small payment for what they are doing. But not like their actual plan by just giving them money, i want to connect it to a "problem" to solve (resolve issue, add feature, merge pr, ...)
Principles will take you further than policies ever will
Can’t you just change the merge target to the prerelease branch?
Encryption was never banned in the US. There have been restrictions on export of encryption technology.
I work on the OpenVidu development platform thus the Call application example was an easy recommendation... we have a public server with demo deployments, of which Call is just one.

Appear.in went through some changes (not sure of exactly what) and became "whereby" (sincerely the previous name was so much better).

Another all time favorite of mine (not self-hosted though) is talky.io

And of course there is Jitsi Meet, a very well-known get-a-room application that can also be self-hosted. And they maintain a public deployment too.
Multiple companies banding together is not a monopoly. This was a collective effort. You could call it a polyoploy but click-bait gonna click-bait.

They didn't kill Parker though, we did. We made if clear that we wouldn't do business with companies that supported the worst of us. They complied with our demands to force them out of the public sphere and I applaud them for it. As an ex Googler and generally anti FAANG, I don't have many fond words for them but I support this action. For the most part, I even approve of the timeline: let garbage peddling monsters be garbage peddling monsters until they do real damage and then cut them off.
>>Hopefully with Dems in control we will see these companies punished for their bad behavior. Or at least laws passed that make the publication of research more open.

"Yeah, meet the new boss, same as the old boss..."

You write like someone who's never heard of "regulatory capture."
Well, that's the last HN article I will knowingly read.
The word you are looking for is 'directory'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory
Reichstag Fire Decree
The file format for ledger is very simple, it's literally just a list of transations formatted like this:

2021/01/12 Grocery store
Assets:Checking
Expenses:Groceries $50

This transaction means that you spent $50 at the grocery store. It's double-entry bookkeeping, so the transfers always balance: "Assets:Checking" account is reduced by $50 and "Expenses:Groceries" is increased by $50. This entry is equivalent to the previous one.

2021/01/12 Grocery store
Assets:Checking -$50
Expenses:Groceries $50

But this entry is invalid, since it's not balanced (it's the accounting equivalent of a compiler error, and ledger will throw an error when parsing this):

2021/01/12 Grocery store
Assets:Checking -$75
Expenses:Groceries $50

A ledger file is literally just a list of these transactions. Accounts are created the first time you use them in a transaction. Transactions can have more than two associated accounts, but they still have to balance. There are many more advanced features, but this (along with some basic understanding of accounting) is all you really need.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in a scientistic content platform?
I’ve been asked to consider setting up a scientistic content platform. Is this something worth the hassle, in your opinion? We are thinking of social problems and a spectre of hard solutions, but the internet is full of sects already and we really do not need to entertain nutters, dystopian nerds and extremists. Thanks.
I'll note that this post is sarcasm for posterity's sake.
Because Parler was explicitly designed to host reprehensible speech, and was not making a good-faith effort in censoring their platform. Those hosting the platform decided "nah, we don't want to be associated with this" and cut them off.

These free-speech advocates still have the ability to create mastodon instances or a listserv or something else where a company doesn't have that leverage over them. They still have options and this crying is overblown.
FritzBox is way better than isp-provided or TP-Link-like boxes but certainly not pro-anything (no vlans or ingress-qos, guest-wifi but no real multi-ssid, severely limited dns-customization ...)
To be analogous, it would have to actually interfere with the thing-being-sensed. The idea is that it should work despite you having no knowledge, and being completely untrusting, of what shenanigans they might have regarding how it's wired up.
NIH Director looks back at the year in science advances
Without the right framework to manage sidecar files, this system rots quickly. Tools like DVC are good but there are still rough edges.

The issue partly stems from the lack of coupling between data and metadata on file systems. I think the next evolution of file systems involves the ability to link files together in an organic way. But that is tricky since it breaks the abstraction of files as stream of bytes. Might need to go up a level of abstraction and create new primitives for cp, mv, etc.
Well, I fully expect Apple and Google to both ban Twitter from their app stores without any review or recourse. They are fair and unbiased.
That's why I don't go to the gym. :)
I wonder if there's an underlying connection here with studies showing that Black teachers improve outcomes for Black students:
https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2018-11-...
Simple version is today’s voters will always vote for low taxes and elect to have future generations pay for today’s services/labor.

This works as long as you have economic growth (usually as a result of population growth).

Doesn’t work so well when automation and cheaper labor from other places in the world are taking away the economic growth, and simultaneously people are having 0, 1, or at most 2 kids.
Yes. See also: ebola. If a disease is fatal too fast, it cannot spread well.
Dupe, posted a half hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25747659

Already flagged there, by the way.
So long as there are open source browsers, involuntary censorship via the browser will be difficult. One can always fork and start again. The most real danger comes when utility functions like access to an ISP or internet backbone interconnection are threatened.
Filing Cabinets – A more human approach to databases
I've always had a better time waking up on exciting days like the first day of class or a day when my roommates and I were planning to get coffee. With the pandemic, there's been quite a few fewer days like that, but let's hope that's almost over.
Sorry, I misread your original comment.

Sure, if the project is successful to the point of receiving significant amounts, having to report it becomes mandatory.

Speaking as someone with an open source project that started due a grant and that I'd love to turn into a full time job: If I were receiving so many donations that it would require me to spend time to report to the tax authorities, I'd put it on the list of "good problems to have".
They get used in laptops like DELL XPS 13, MBP 13 and that class of laptop as well as larger.
It certainly is different when EVERYONE hates you, rather than just the king.
It doesn't seem like there is a lot of evidence that this 2019 shooting was politically motivated. I think the perpetrator had serious mental problems and also strong political feelings. Maybe he just wanted to "outdo" the El Paso shooting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Dayton_shooting
So it really depends on what one consider as the regular user interface.

One could easily write a small (web or desktop) application that takes some plain text, appends it to a ledger file and creates a git commit.
As well as only providing a read-only view to the ledger.
I was fortunate enough to buy an x220 in 2011. Don't use it much these days since I have newer machines available (though one of them is also sandy bridge), but it's still perfectly serviceable and to this day my favorite keyboard ever on a laptop.
For me, I don't plan on fully switching to Signal unless there's the ability to create an identity that isn't tied to a phone number.
It's actually very common for women professionals to use a lower register when speaking to colleagues. People take them more seriously; they notice. I have several friends who do this.
I think it’s one thing if Twitter bans DJT. In the end it’s their platform, and their rules. But I feel very different about infrastructure players starting their censorship based on what’s happening 1 or even 2 steps further down the line. It’s a wrong move and will just push the discussion somewhere else, the least. The worst that this might lead is that the internet breaks off into several non-communicating islands, which we all don’t want.
> that once a large group of people are organized against you, it’s simply in feasible to rebuild decades of infrastructure in isolation.

Time will tell. Right we are on day 2(?) of Parler being banned from major platforms, and their main problems seems to be being banned from app stores and not necessarily infrastructure problems. thedonald.win seems to be doing just fine and Voat also seemed to sustain a significant userbase before shutting down (financing a platform is a whole other thing entirely).
Presumably Congress could strip a former President of those benefits as they have in general in the past, which was then reversed during the Obama administration. I assume they could even strip a specific individual of those benefits while leaving them intact for others.
Millions of Users Are Flooding Encrypted Apps After Social Media Purges
This power could be used to sensor you in the future. This power could be put in the hands of a group of people who thinks completely different from you.
Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues
> Reality check: Parler contained realistic threats and refused to moderate or remove those threads. First, that breaks TOS. Second, given that AWS new provably knows about those, once someone acted on those threats, they could be liable.

Probably not because of “threats”, which are generally only unlawful if they are delivered to the person that would be threatened.

On the other hand, if the messages on the site constituted constituted conspiracy, that is more likely to be a liability risk for AWS once they knew of it. Moreover, if it was conspiracy to one of the predicate offenses listed in 18 USC Sec 2339A regarding material support for terrorism, then knowingly providing any good or service connected to it other than medicine or religious material is a major federal felony—and a capital one if death occurs as a result of the crime for which services were provided.
Democrats are politicians with listed policies, not faeries that grant wishes because you happen to be more aligned with them. Elimination of copyright isn't on their to-do list.
A very limited way. Ways for savvy individuals to secretively exchange information and communicate are one thing. Running a site that has a large data footprint and is intended to be accessible to a large unsophisticated audience is something else.
About twice as many people express a preference for Signal as Telegram here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25669864
Reddit has conveniently left him out of their about page, despite being a cofounder: https://www.redditinc.com/

About Aaron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
I'm taking a more mild approach, switching to lugging two laptops around.

One is for DevOps, accessing production systems, servers. That's where my ssh keys will reside. This will run qubes or maybe NixOS. Not sure yet.

The Mac will be left for casual daily use, development (but no production keys), graphics design, fun, general browsing, chat, and whatnot.

I'm still in the process of splitting all my tasks into what should be secure and what shouldn't.

A nice side effect is that I won't be just as afraid of running a random "brew install" or install an app to check it out, since the Mac is anyway going to be low-security.

Of course it's annoying to carry around two laptops, but completely switching to Linux just means I won't make it happen. Maybe some time...
Could be an engagement hack. It could be that automated scrapers typically work quickly.

It could also be the fact that Parler isn't really good at that whole database thing:

https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1348474968527360001
"speaking out about racism and censorship of anti-racist research." What did she accuse them of doing?
They've been booted from AWS, which is a significant infrastructure problem.
>> Inception of FOSS [1886-1978]

What happened in 1886?
This is just one problem of playing the identity politics game, you won't win. Now any firing of a Back person will be seen as a hostile move, regardless of whether or not it was warranted. You have the Twitter mob decide for you that those firings were wrong regardless of evidence.

How about go back to hiring people for their merit, instead of filling up "diversity slots"?
Ya why would AWS have any reason to stop providing service to a customer who didn’t follow their terms of service and took pride in a festering a community of terrorists who are now making credible threats to attack aws and recently tried to overthrow the US government in a violent coup.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25745908

The mental gymnastics of the people defending Parler on here are wild. If Parler was a community of ISIS or any non-white non-christian extremists none of y’all would be insisting on Apple or Amazon’s requirement to do business with them and be complicit.
This is a good point, I had suspected that the mute function was, in fact, implemented in software.

That they went ahead and implemented in hardware is encouraging. Someone over there took the feature seriously enough to take it this far. I am sure it added cost over a software-only solution.
It's kinda meaningful. Wake words can be sometimes triggered by accident. Or by things like that commercial from a few years ago. A physical button press avoids all that.
You are presenting true entrepreneurship and open protocols as a false dichotomy

This has been changing for some time now: MongoDB switched to an open source model a decade ago, and a number of companies have followed suit. The strategy is hard to pull off, but even in the case where Docker the company very much failed, Docker the technology did not.

The next wave of these are blockchain companies. I think the jury is still out on these open source companies becoming breakout successes, but they did succeed so far in one critical aspect: the funding model. These companies have tens of millions of dollars at their disposal to build open protocols, and a plan for how to make more once they ship usable products.

Yes, building centralized tech is easier. No, that doesn’t mean it will inevitably win. These things take time.
Project Mayhem
That's my other issue. Nixpkgs just isn't as rich as AUR. I'm willing to use mostly nix OR mostly pacman, but not some 50/50 split of both, which is what the current situation tempts. I'd be extremely pleased if there were some sort of adapter plugin that let nix manage external packages so that I'm not forced to choose.
Well it might be nice if the US parties moved to OMOV (one Member One Vote) and did away with 19th century style primaries - some of the are still open out cry FFS

Only Paid up "members" of a party could vote for candidates using OMOV

Having UK style hard limits on campaign costs and have networks run party political broadcasts - would be nice but unachievable.
avm is like the apple of home-networking.

hardware stats and software features are severely behind the curve but it mostly just works and you dont really need those features anyway.

certainly not prosumer
No, Apple have exclusivity on TSMC 5nm currently
Not sure how it is inflammatory to state VS Code spies on users,
when according to a GitHub issue[0] Microsoft has been refusing
to clearly comply with GDPR for over 2 years now, with the only
response being (paraphrasing) "just read the source code" when
asked what kind of data is collected.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/47284
oh noes. Will Google shares fall by 10%? 20%? Whatever will they do without black talent???
Mobile in this context refers to mobile computing, an area ranging from large laptops to smart watches.
> With virtual unanimity, leading U.S. liberals celebrated this use of Silicon Valley monopoly power to shut down Parler

Just to be clear, it's possible to detest silicon valley monopoly power while celebrating the deplatforming of Parler in particular.

Antitrust is one concern, the risk of losing democracy to political violence during a transition of power is a separate concern.
Fuck lawmakers. it's their platform, they can ban whoever break their TOS.
Data Science and ML in the E-Commerce Industry: Tools, Use-Cases, Problems
The shut down silkroad. Or whatever it was that tried to use tor to anonymously allow selling illegal products.
>I don't think social media or traditional news monopolies should be dictating the voices we hear.

I agree and the amazing thing is the traditional centralized news (i.e. TV and radio) has been gatekeeping information for what? 100 years now?
In the latest versions you can now have one key backup and use that on a new machine to auto verify all.
But you can buy a new TLD in the DNS, right? Granted, for more money and pending approval. How is the TLD you get from Handshake different? You still control it, right? And you have the power to revoke sub delegations within it, right? That's what's confusing me... the article seemed to indicate that by switching to Handshake, you won't get your name revoked ever again. But the detail that seems to have been left out is "... if you buy a Handshake TLD, as opposed to 'renting' space from a Handshake TLD holder".
https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-mac-os & https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-ios & https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/sharing/my-workflow list mine
The newsmedia loves to trash tech because they want to distract from their -- much worse -- diversity problem.

How much diversity does Vice have? You can see at:
https://company.vice.com/diversity-and-inclusion/

Look at management: 70% white, 5% black. For a company based in New York that isnt hiring PhDs, tell me how this happens?
How is it Vice cant hire more than 5% black managers (or 8% overall) when half their staff are fresh-out-of-college trust fund kids living in parents-paid Park Slope brownstones?
New Directions in Cloud Programming