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> ...according to TDF [The Document Foundation], there's growing trend among enterprises to choose the Community version, rather than one of the paid-for versions provided by TDF's partners, such as Collabora, and support partners, such as Red Hat. The foundation is concerned a lack of enterprise support is threatening the sustainability of the LibreOffice project because it's slowing down development.

Linux has been able to get enterprise support -- by becoming a critical piece of underlying infrastructure for new products and services provided by businesses. For example, see https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/join/members/

The Apache Software Foundation has been able to get enterprise support -- also by becoming a critical piece of underlying infrastructure for new products and services provided by businesses. For example, see https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html

The open-source scientific computing stack has been able to get enterprise support -- also by becoming a critical piece of underlying infrastructure for new products and services provided by businesses. For example, see https://numfocus.org/sponsors

Can Libreoffice become a critical piece of underlying infrastructure, atop which businesses can build new products and services?
A physicist has invented a machine that will allow it to reach Mars 10x faster
Bandwidth is 4MHz, according to the article.
Scotland has far greater trade with the rest of Great Britain than with the EU, so it would be in their interests to remain in the British internal market and customs territory even if they gain political independence.[1][2] Northern Ireland remains in the EU Single Market, so the previous pretense of a unified Ireland within the EU can continue.[3]

1. https://www.ft.com/content/bbf2a097-37ff-42ea-8b22-c5662f0ae...

2. https://www.gov.scot/publications/export-stats-scotland-2018...

3. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-55427004
Or your robot vacuum cleaner! My nieces have various names - Oni, Bob. Ours is named Puck.
Uh... The back button IS the natural way to do it. I commend the OP for making the back button actually work how it's suppsoed to!
Andy Grove on Strategic Inflection Points (1996)
> Am I saying things people have already debated into the ground?

Yes, that's heavily debated since decades. We can stop pushing the goal post further and recognize that free and open source software are now completely mainstream.
Can We Control the Voice in Our Head?
Back in the good old empire days, openness to trades meant letting tradespeople in at all. Others just forbade traders to cross the border, in a closed way like nowadays maybe North Korea. The "openness" consisted of accepting traders, but with tariffs and restrictions on tradeable goods as well as necessary bribes and taxes. Not to mention the nonexistence of any kind of protection along the routes, you just had protection within the walls of a city, and then only when paying the necessary taxes. If you wanted protection for the route, you had to hire your own soldiers.

The granularity of it all varied, usually trade in Central Europe was regulated differently by each city, so you had to pay your dues when crossing the city gates. Others had larger territories, there you had to pay at the border crossings in addition to each city. Oh, and not trading in a city because of taxes? Big no-no, only cities had the right of market, meaning you got in big trouble for that.

I would suggest even the most restrictive trade policy today is more free than in the empires you enumerated. There is only a difference in sophistication of the rules, because nowadays there are far more varied goods and that "unnecessary" stuff like consumer protection.
I'm confused where you get the impression that this poster is acting like 'only black kids are allowed to be linemen'. Outside of quarterback, the offensive line is where you're more likely to see white players.

You'll typically see black players mostly represented in the 'skill' positions (receiver, running back, linebacker, defensive back -- basically any position that relies of speed and quickness). This comes from generations of racist attitudes pushing black players to the 'athletic' positions while keeping white players for the positions that require 'intelligence', 'grit', and 'leadership'.

Also, it's not just the line that suffers brain injury.
Chess is the hot game to stream right now on Twitch.

Clearly, there's a bunch of people who want to watch Chess play.
No employee hardware is payed for by the business. We all use our own machines, and all three major operating systems are well represented. So in your opinion we're all ethically in the clear?
I highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Page-One/dp/1578660882

It's a century's worth of NYTimes front pages. An amazing long term dataset that is fun to flip through to answer infinite questions you might have about both how the last 100 years really went down and also about the evolution of presenting information to readers.
I would actually be surprised if humans would not adapt to the environment just like any other animal. Why should we be special and any different in the first place?
> 10mm shorter than the distance between the seed comparison

This doesn't parse for me. You mean the difference between the two lengths of seeds I gave? Thats 150mm - 3mm, which is more than 10mm longer than 13.5mm.
Just two weeks ago, security researchers (like the kind of people who would be interested in visiting this page) were targeted by hackers which used a still-unpatched (as far as we know) Chrome zero-day to install malware: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/new-campaign-targe...

If this page started getting popular, a MitM attack to inject malware is a very real possibility.
The title of this submission is literally the title of the blog post. If you must complain, go complain to the blog author.
No and that's precisely why a company will opt for the Community version. It seems an open-source product should insert itself in the profit vertical of a company if that product demands the company pay for it.
If you only look at someone's skills at an instant in time, they are definitely not qualified for some things, but that's really obvious and not really fair. Ruthless capitalistic businesses don't really give pop quizzes and fire people the instant they fail (that's only in interviews!).

A lot of the writing around automation has suggested that there will be a single turning point, or a very short period, where all of this job loss happens (because all businesses will adopt it instantly for profit, right?), but that's not really the case even when you find a good automated solution to a problem. If not a single point in time, they say it will happen quickly enough that people can't re-skill quickly enough and will be jobless.

So although fast food workers might fail at programming those things if you show up with a pop quiz, it's not really a good test. What we should do instead is offer them opportunities to be able to learn to do that over time (so long as they're interested in that kind of work) instead of trying to find a way to cull people who can't do it immediately.
I find a lot of the comments on this topic (and anytime AI comes up) very frustrating. Many of them strike me as little more than skeptical posturing: “it’s just statistics!” or “Current AI systems have no understanding and so can’t solve problem X”

I don’t think this sort of thinking has any predictive power. If you are skeptical of deep learning because it is “just statistics”, did that skepticism allow you to predict that self driving cars would not be solved in 2020, but protein folding would?

I think the best test for skeptics is the one proposed by Eliezer Yudkowsky: what is this least impressive AI achievement you are sure won’t happen in the next two years. If you really want to impress me, give me a list of N achievements that you think have a 50% chance of happening in 2 years. Or 5 years. Just make some falsifiable prediction.

If you aren’t willing to do that, or something like it, why not?
If you are just taking a snapshot in time, that might just work. The problem over time, however, is that the descent, of each species so defined, is a long chain of breeding. There is a sorites problem in dividing it up into one species begetting another, as it is unlikely you will find offpring that could not breed with their parents' generation.
Another factor is the amount of protein that each contains: Google says soy beans are 36g per 100g, whereas it's 24g for mung beans, so you'd need less quantity of soy to yield a given amount of protein.

As a separate comment: wow, I had no idea mung beans contained that much protein!
Almost all of the debt is in GM Financial which is a subsidiary. If GM Financial debt goes bad GM can just shutter the company. Also the debt is from leases, people right now during the pandemic are prioritizing paying their leases over the home loans and rent.
> Did your company reduce mortality?

From the parent:

> This work has greatly increased accuracy in diagnosis, saving lives.
Neutrinos and Neutrettos
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And that seems to be the limits of ML. We might eek out self driving cars, but I don't think we will get much more than that. It is pretty significant, but still limited compared to general purpose AI.
Apple has become increasingly anti-consumer since Steve Jobs died. It turns out that once you’re the 800lb-gorilla, you no longer have to care about your customers.
In 2009 someone found that a pigeon was faster at transferring data than their ISP:

* https://www.wired.com/2009/09/in-africa-a-pigeon-transfers-d...

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm

* https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-11325452
It is "properly licensed." That's the issue, and it's why LibreOffice has to beg instead of being able to sue.

If LibreOffice doesn't like this use, they can change to a less libre license. That's the point of proprietary and mixed licenses.
I’m not sure it’s the type of social change you’re anticipating.

I think the fact everyone has access to the food they want and is part of their culture is a major reason we generally have a peaceful and free society.

I can only imagine the resent from the middle and lower classes when “the elites” eat steaks on airplanes and they, the plebs they are, are forced to subside on processed alternatives while being forced to become a proselyte to a cause that those that can afford to ignore do.
Any chance you could offer an RSS or Atom feed?
From a pragmatic standpoint the Euro is a complete failure. I don't blame any country that decided against adopting it. However, the rest is relatively solid. There are warts and inefficiencies like in every governing body but it's does its job as an economic union.
Denver was going pretty strong with your Type2 club the last few years, as someone whos done the Euroclub experience a(from Zurich to Barcelona, to Paris and London) the house and techno scene was working its way towards building a really awesome nightlife (lounge hangs on weekdays to clubs at night and warehouses for the after on weekends). Covid crushed it, but I think the internationalization of underground EDM is really pushing hard with the millennials and am excited to see what the next decade can bring as governments loosen their ties and find ways to allow even formerly "alt" attractions.
> If we today are burdening future generations, the proper description is that they will pay, not us.

Oh _we_ will too. More taxes, less pensions, more and more privatization of public entities, moving the retirement age up a few years ever decades, &c. the same shit they've been pulling all over Europe for the last 50 years basically

> They did not ask for this. They did not consent to owe anything.

Most of _us_ neither, only the elite/people in charge asked for it. It doesn't benefit the lower 90% of any countries' population.
The great tragedy of AI: a promise of creating synthetic sentience, a reality of mundane number crunching.
Your employer should be providing the tools for you to do the job, including locally run software.

So yes, they should be providing an office suite whether that be Office365/ Libre Office / etc.
Ethically who knows but you're definitely legally in the clear
I can't find Bitcoin, why?
If you're reading Hacker News
and have got time to lose
composing a clerihew'll
beat demanding satisfaction in a duel
If you want to convince someone to trust something they’re likely not seeking out, giving them homework won’t be very persuasive.
Today we have tweets instead of web pages. Please stay off the grass.
I think of a broad category of items including strawberry seeds, mustard seeds, sunflower seeds, mango seeds and other "pit"s, up to coconut seeds. I think "sunflower seed" would have been a better comparison, as its something a person can actually visualize, not a 3 order of magnitude spanning category.
I'm assuming if they are only producing the whey protein this should also be lactose free? Could be appealing to those not vegan but lactose intolerant.

For ice cream in particular I actually prefer vegan versions and I know a lot of non vegans who buy it because it doesn't feel as heavy and fatty as dairy based ice creams.

I overall don't really think ice-cream is the space I would bother devoting my time to. I think plant based alternatives are doing pretty well there. Try something like the Ben and Jerry's vegan flavours and tell me you need a "vegan" dairy based one.
The best thing about reading technical books is that it naturally leads one to get aquainted deeper with the topic at hand.

Usually many ideas spawn out of some brilliant work which is published for a while already and its really worthwhile to try to track down those.

Knowing history makes it easier to understand works which in some way depend on the original, even small bits - something called syntopical reading.

While this is obvious to many I’ve always struggled to get myself
to read those early works.

Now obvious question is what is the best book to read on the topic of reading books?

I think one of the best is “How to read a book” by Mortimer Adler. It is about all books and cannot recommend it highly enough. It is in public domain already unless I’m mistaken so here is a link [1].

[1] https://delong.typepad.com/files/adler-read.pdf
It's played on foot, just like the other footballs.
A New Front in the Anti-Vaccine Fight Emerges in California
Well it's hardly surprising given the design of their web site. I've used libreoffice for years and have never noticed the 'for business' link before. Add to that that if you go to download Libre Office and end up on some site trying to flog you something like collabra or whatever, it sounds like you've gone to the wrong place.

Even if you get past that barrier, the most obvious button is 'try collabra office' which pops up one of those bullshit contact forms where you just expect the company to try to rinse you for whatever subscription they can get out of you. No thanks.
I'm assuming (based on reading how they performed grouping) that percussion01 didn't exist, but perhaps cymbal01 did (since a cymbal is a type of percussion instrument). Therefore cymbal01 would be a web server of sometime. The benefit to naming it this way is you could have multiple types of web servers (internal, dev, prod) and by using a more generic name you could more easily change the function of that web server (so cymbal servers could be dev, then move to prod, without needing a name change).
You're an employee in an enterprise, so I bet the following applies to you:
"TDF stressed that LibreOffice 7.1 "Community" is meant for individuals and that means specifically not enterprise organizations."
Interesting. I like the look and feel of the site.

Two bits of critical feedback.

One, if you can get it you should use the day 1 VWAP -- what you would have most likely paid had you actually bought on the open market.

Two, if you invest 1000 in something and it's now worth 1200, you haven't made $1200, you've made $200. You use the $1200 value in your examples (although the percentage gain is correct).
Missed opportunity to call it Midnight Captain.
Resource tags, like the ones supported by Vmware, AWS, and other cloud providers would be more important to me than a server name. I suppose for old-school bare-metal on-prem, you could put tags in DNS TXT records and some database.
How to Be a Low Level Programmer
One problem in written science fiction is the requirement for it to be at least vaguely commercially viable, which necessitates dramatic plotting and/or readability. ML is, to most non-technical people, intensely boring. How do you dramatize it?

I've published two novels that go there: 2011's "Rule 34", and -- coming out this September -- "Invisible Sun", and in both books ML is very much a subaltern aspect of the narrative. That is, neither book would have a plot without the presence of ML, but it's not really possible in my opinion to write a novel about ML in the same way that the earlier brain-in-a-box model of AI could form the key conceit of books like "2001: A Space Odyssey", "The Adolescence of P-1", or "Colossus" (examples from the 1960s and 1970s when it was still a fresh, new trope rather than being pounded into the dirt).

So it probably shouldn't surprise anyone much that SF hasn't said much about the field so far, any more than it had much to say about personal computers before 1980 or about the internet before 1990 -- what examples there are were notable exceptions, recognized after the event.
Does it take timeouts and retries into account ?

For example, medium takes forever to load in Firefox mobile with unlock origin, which I'm assuming is from time spent waiting on network requests and retrying them.
Does it matter who pays for the hardware? I don't think that distinction is made by The Document Foundation.
The lack of diversity in the coaching ranks is the result of structural racism. The lack of black quarterbacks is a direct result both structural and often overt racism where black quarterbacks are considered to have less intelligence and leadership ability than white quarterbacks.

At the same time, black players are overrepresented in what are called 'skill positions' -- those requiring more speed and athleticism.

To ignore this is either to:
1.) Not really know football culture; or
2.) Be intentionally obtuse

Commentators like Bomani Jones speak often about these subjects, if you'd like to read up on it.
Anyone else noticed their ad blocker/s hammering their cpu on YouTube (specifically) the last few weeks?
I looked for ZDNet's source to see where it was getting such tone-deaf and counter-productive messaging. It's from the actual release announcement discussed earlier this week!

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/03/libreoff...

Open source sustainability is a real problem, but spending the first seven paragraphs of a release announcement berating a bunch of your users as freeloaders is a really bad look.
Not surprised at all that two comments here defending the huge size talk about how it makes them feel special.

Personally, I think people look like idiots driving around monster trucks for fun. Unless you're actually having big shit to a construction site.

Sad that Ford had to start making the Ranger huge too.
Thank you! IMHO this new quote is more adequately resumed by "He was understandably trying to prevent people from buying and using surgical masks because there was a dangerously limited supply. When the supply was secure he advocated masking." than by "New information is obtained. Sometimes experts have to change their recommendations".

>...> when people in authority tell you that they had, or perhaps still have to, lie to you “for your own good” — that’s not a hallmark of a free society.

True and well put.
i am at -2 votes right now... did i say something bad? i'm still trying to understand what makes HN crowd mad
Then... you’re probably not black in America.
Maybe I tried to compare AI with God or just thought that it would be funny.
It's far less interesting than finding an exploit in git-shell, which was how I read the headline :|
So what's the price tag?
I thought "Hey, I know a guy who drove an old Ford pickup from Seattle to NC", and then I saw your username.

Hope you're doing well man. With love from Texas <3
No evidence of increased suicides in 2020
Scrapped GoldenEye 007 game 'remaster' leaks online
Controlling the GPU at a lower than Vulkan level
For this reason, I don't buy new and instead buy in places that have been "burned in" and where I can talk with current and previous inhabitant(s) and read complaints online. If you have "that" kind of money, you can always remodel.

Flipping it around, that due diligence can also result in amazing deals on places that non-engineers are too afraid to touch.
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> If you want a burger, go eat a freaking slaughtered cow patty burger

Thanks for showing your true colors so I don't have to bother responding to this stupid post.
They use a needle injection and then a spray pain killer. I barely felt it during, most of the soreness was after the procedure. Don't plan on doing anything for 5 days.

I was a security guard at a casino and went back day 4. First half of my shift I was ok, but I went home half way through my shift because walking the patrols was becoming a little uncomfortable.

Here is a rather controversial opinion of mine, hope it is not out of place here:

I would highly encourage all men to get a vasectomy and to freeze your sperm. It is the only way to have sexual agency. Once the woman is pregnant, your consent does not matter and you only are along for the ride.

I just want to clarify here, I believe in Her body her choice. I just believe that the man should have this be a choice as well, and this the only option as far as I see. I would like to hear of alternatives if anyone has them.

Even if you feel sure of not wanting kids, freezing sperm is much cheaper then reversing the vasectomy. People change, and so can you.
So, a more complete example might help:

def myFunc(par=None):
if par:
# do whatever is needed when the parameter exists
pass
#finish processing

This allows you to pass in [], {}, None, '', or omit par all together, which will all behave as if par=None, or pass in data and use it appropriately. You can also use

if not par:
pass

if you want to do the inverse.
a fun thing that pedantic nerds can appreciate about football is the obscure, old-fashioned strategies that remain technically legal.

in the early 20th century it was common for a player to take the ball and drop-kick it themselves to score a field goal. this isn't really done any more (due to changed shape of the ball), now one player holds the ball upright and the kicker kicks it.

but you are still allowed to try!. in 2006 the quarterback Doug Flutie did it right before retiring, just because he could.
Computers are semi cheap but this is still quite crazy to require employees to come with their own tools to be able to work. I'm happy to live in a country were employers have an obligation to provide that.
Not optimistic; people can't even fix the software on their computer, which doesn't require taking things apart, special tools or getting your hands dirty.
Persistent Data Structures – An Introduction