skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure. You'll find that our notions of our own world and societies are also very outdated on average due to how rapidly they're changing (and by and large improving).

A wonderful, easy to read book on this that I recommend is Factfulness.

https://www.ted.com/playlists/474/the_best_hans_rosling_talk...

https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Bett...
The Beginner's Guide to Contributing to Open Source
Linux had CORBA, DCOP and now DBUS, among other UNIX variants.
Coding is like literacy, but the way you apply that skill evolves and becomes specialized. Just like there's different kinds of writing like technical writing, creative writing, etc.

There's roles for people that focus on lower-level operating system or embedded systems development. There's roles for people that focus on frontend, or web application development. There's many roles where you wouldn't be considered a software engineer, but involve coding like in science or research.

While being a good software engineer (like being a good writer) are skills that translate well, I think the specializations and skills will continue to evolve into different niches. Some of these niches will be longer lived, others more transitory. When you develop your own skills, you have to decide if the skills you invest in are going to be longer-lived/valuable, or if they'll go away and not be particularly useful.
Thanks for the context, that seems like a reasonable approach. The only thing I would offer is, do they know they can contact Pio or the Brit? I'm sure they'd much prefer to liaise with them rather than hope the police will fix everything. How would they discover such people?

FWIW, I'm kind of in the same situation, as I bought a place last month in the gentrifying East Riverside area (just across the river from the one in the article). Everything was going as expected until last Sunday, when a preacher set up a concert grade sound system for an outdoor service, which was new even to long-term residents. The 311 app and social media lit up with complaints about it. (Apparently, some group does this around there weekly, but until now not with such loud equipment.)
"As you start to ponder the implied ethos, the stranger it gets. Would you like engineers to be passionate as they design new bridges? Would you like a surgeon to be passionate as she operates on you? Would you like judges to be passionate as they pass sentence on your friend?"

I'm not sure what exactly he means by passionate, but I do know a surgeon who spends time reading and lecturing about the history of surgery. I'm sure there are judges who take pride in understanding more than just how to do their current jobs too. And for a fact you will run into engineers, both the traditional and software kinds, who care to get some context related to their professions. I also spent a fair bit of time when I got a trading job reading up on how the market had evolved. Does that qualify as passion?

Now, there's of course a difference between demonstrating that you care about the larger context of your work, and doing work for free. I think the only place where we associate passion with no money tends to be the arts, the common trope being that person who acts or paints but needs a job to pay the bills. Then clearly they aren't doing it for the money.

But of course you can do something for money while also caring deeply about it.

Overall he's right though, you should never let someone talk you into a position where you need to demonstrate that you want to work for free. If you are in the village play because you like it, and that play somehow ends up on Netflix and makes a gazillion dollars, you should get a sensible piece of it. Likewise if someone is proposing you help with some software that might end up being worth a lot, you should get a piece.
New – Trump’s Facebook ban likely to be overturned in coming weeks
Anytime you publish something, it is copyrighted. The data within may not be, but my presentation of it in a certain database certainly is.
I heard one Bell Labs scientist observe that labs like that pay for themselves many times over if someone only rarely invents something great, like the transistor.

It seems to me that if one were desperately looking for an objective measurement of what the lab was currently accomplishing, it would involve looking at the quality and retention of its hires. It sounds like they dropped the ball.
There is little difference. The vast majority of programmers are workers without any kind of ownership, but still expected to volunteer unpaid time to open source projects for career advancement.
The asshole blaring music and doing burnouts is very unlikely to respond positively to a suggestion they stop doing that. If they were reasonable people and considerate of others they wouldn't be doing that in the first place.

I suspect that if you polled the long term residents of the area they would have similar negative perceptions of the car club. It's just that they don't have the power to effect change or don't have the attitude that they can effect change.
I think Verizon throttles you down to 600kbps, not mbps [1].

It’s 2021, so ridiculous.

[1] https://www.verizon.com/support/verizon-plan-unlimited-faqs/ (FAQ #6)
"Such apps must make the source code provided by the Application completely viewable and editable by the user."

arguably the ability to view source was what created the possibilities of the Web, and as such I don't read this term to be restrictive but instead merely trying to get the best outcome for everyone.

disclaimer being that I have spent a large part of the past year evaluating a ios app for commercial release that both relies on decades of proprietary design and which probably doesn't have a significant future unless it is opened extensively or completely.
“The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.”
-Carl Schmitt

Just guess who is the be seen as the enermy, guilty of some original sin that must be attoned at all times.
Anything "smart" and "intelligent" is by now firmly associated with "we are watching you" in my brain. Maybe not the case here ... let's hope.
Here’s a photo with the ship name “Ever Given” in smaller letters on the bow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26560319

The shipping company name “Evergreen” is in huge letters on the side of the ship.
There's a feedback effect where those developers get hired and then become the hiring managers (employers). So the line between developer and employer is gray enough for some blame to lie on both sides.
I do like when teams will ask for side projects (if I have them) or OSS projects. Software has an inherent bias towards people from prestigious schools (but especially CS programs) and enforces that bias via heavy algorithm testing that is otherwise mostly not needed in software. Not to say it's never needed, but the 90% use case does not involve knowing how to do binary search by hand. As I built my knowledge around algorithms to adhere to certain software engineers biases, being able to sub that in for actual work was pivotal to my career. It's surprising to see people outright excluding that as an option in the interviewing process.

As my career has gone on longer and I've overcame the algorithm bias, my OSS contributions mostly dissipated. I do continue to work on side projects to learn but I continually encourage businesses to promote learning during work time. Bringing back read only Friday is a great way to do this and generally maintain velocity.

I don't have any data for you, just my experiences.
> and now the entire thing is "technically" GPL.

The "thing" doesn't become GPL, though.

They are in breach of the license, it's a major headache, and re-licensing the thing as GPL may be one way forward.

That's not an automatism, though, and no court would declare the thing GPL.

You may pay hefty "fictitious" licensing fees and (punitive) damages, you may have to stop distributing your thing, but you're not losing control.
A Comparison of ML Experiment Tracking Tools
There are so many options and this post tries to make some sense of the mess.
Fascinating, thank you - I have some more questions if you don't mind! Was that your first degree or did you switch to this domain from something else? Would you care to name/recommend your degree program, and any key texts, for someone interested in following in your footsteps?
A Simple Recipe for Startup Execution
Yep, as someone that first attended Defcon 6 (at the Plaza), things have gone from keeping it quiet and underground to blast it on twitter for cred. Crazy thing is there are a lot of these Twit-iots that barely work in the industry and as you said, repeat others work.

I know a large number of them personally, some of them are nice people, but most of them are pretty insecure and constantly looking for acknowledgement. To a degree I guess we all are.

The number of people that want to skip working in IT / understanding other parts of business and go directly to their Offensive Security Cert and be called a hacker is numbing. Theres a reason most of the training programs within the leading firms / govt agencies, require following the apprentice / journeyman process much like other trades. It takes time and a deep understanding.

But nah.. i'll skip all that because check out mah tweeets.
This is a big ship. There's no nearby facility to unload or service it. Its not something you bring tools in your pickup truck to solve the problem.

If its not immediately resolvable with the ships own facilities, then its not clear it can be solved in less than a-long-time. Maybe years?

Its 200 million pounds. It holds 20,000 units. To unload it would take building a facility on-site. And maybe a rail line to carry the cargo away.

I have hopes the tug solution will solve it. But if not, then there's probably no easy solution at all. Not one that costs less than a billion dollars?
If I were to guess, it would be saying something is "objectively the best" followed by personal anecdotes with no objectivity.
There are a lot of techniques to help, but they only help so much.

I could opt for less metasyntactic power but it would make the code less expressive, harder to follow, and more error prone. The tradeoff is worth it.

Given I used to compile on a .25 MIPS KA-10 there's little to complain about. For a while in the mid 80s I had two symbolics lispm consoles in my office because I would use one as a build machine and one for development and other stuff (one had a gasp color display attached as well!). That was when programmer time was worth the capital cost. Honestly it didn't matter as much as incremental development was done with interpreted code anyway.

But time spent compiling is time spent reflecting, and doesn't have to cost you flow.
Actually, it has happened in the past. Windows Phone, a decent platform from the developer perspective failed to attract any significant interest. And that’s with all the resources of Microsoft and the recognition of Nokia.
According to this benchmark much larger binary size, but similar performance: https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html

that was a while ago though.
TSMC: A Taiwanese chipmaker became a linchpin of the global economy
Production processes more generally, yeah. A farmer using 1913 technology can’t even come close to competing in today’s market. It would be hard even in high-end price-insensitive segments (think farmers markets and farm to table restaurants).

Americans spent more on food than on housing until ~1950, despite going to restaurants much less frequently than today. Today they spend over 3x as much on housing as food. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/how-ame...
> "We were here first" is plenty of justification of a whole lot of things.

No it's not, not according to the law. If I move into town and I want to change things that's my right as a citizen.
Well, it works fine as a phone. With Mobian it is stable enough for me to be a daily driver.

When I need performance I usually turn to real computers or specialized gadgets.
If you wouldn't come back with a gun yourself to resolve the issue, it's a dick move to call someone else (a cop) to come over with a gun.

If you're making phone calls for armed response because someone is playing music, the problem might be with you.
Presumably, for as long as the ship is blocking the canal, it is important enough to be in the opening section of the article. You can imagine that if the ship is there forever, it would certainly be in the opening section.
Why do you say Ada is 2.7b ?
But what's the intersection of critical stuff that needs to shave those milliseconds and stuff that is fine with the reduced reliability and latency variability of wireless comms vs fixed line?
Am I misreading the AIS data there? I read that to mean that it's a 15.7m vessel in 16m water.
Indeed, those LTT/ShortCircuit reviews were very lazy and don't do justice neither to the PinePhone nor the Librem 5.
I think the pedantic interpretation of the GPL “depends on” clause is that burning a content-hash of a GPLed release of a work into your work, such that your work retrieves and installs the GPLed work-release by its content-hash (or retrieves the work-release by name + version and then verifies it by content hash — as a Bundler Gemfile.lock does), is “depending on” the GPLed release of the upstream work. Due to the explicitness of the reference, the only release that the downstream project could be depending on, is a GPLed release. (Remember, GPLed code releases need to embed the GPL license somewhere, so there’s no posssibility of a byte-for-byte identical dep being created by coincidence that isn’t GPLed.)

Meanwhile, just saying “I’ll take whatever is in the environment at [path]” is a more plugin-like approach: a GPLed database could be placed there, but a differently-licensed database could be there instead. Because you’re not making any explicit reference to any particular release of any particular work, you aren’t infected by the copyright/licensing of the particular work/release that happens to be there.

It’s a lot like the case-law of the DMCA’s “tool used for breaking copyright” clause: if the tool has features that exclusively help to break copyright, with no other uses, then it’s in violation of the DMCA; while if all features of the tool have other potential use-cases, then it doesn’t.

In both cases, it’s a question of whether there’s a “reasonable doubt” on what exactly the project was aiming to achieve / link against. If the project is explicit and removes all doubt, then it’s in violation.
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How to Make an End to End Automatic Speech Recognition System with Wav2vec 2.0
There are tools available to help look for this sort of thing (for both you and any potential attackers). TruffleHog[1] is the first one that comes to mind for me.

I also like shhgit[2] for looking for secrets in repositories. (I don't think shhgit will look back in the git history for you though).

[1]: https://github.com/dxa4481/truffleHog

[2]: https://github.com/eth0izzle/shhgit
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26561692#26563602
Just like the people that move in next to even famous auto racing circuits, and then complain about the noise -- it's your job to check out the situation before moving in.

The best proper adaptation that I've seen was reading about a developer that took some deteriorating apartments under an airport runway and refurbished them specifically for the deaf community (doorbells that flash instead of ring, etc.). It was apparently a big success.

I'd consider that car meet regularly held nextdoor to be a wonderful benefit.
Azure Stack and AWS Outposts are already targeting at least mid-size businesses. The issue that they are still not simple to implement and give marginal benefits to most use cases. I never actually managed to get one of these onboard, but we did evaluate them on behalf of some clients who were to trying to some very high-end digital experiences for customers. Geofencing, personalized kiosk experiences, dwell time tracking. And they wanted it all to be really fast. We did some pricing (for both our services and equipment/hosting costs) and it would have been millions and taken at least 6 months to build out. I also worked at a pretty big retailer that had some some ancient "edge" compute workloads that we were in the process of decommissioning because it was too big of a pain to keep them updated, powered and connected at 300 locations.

Chik-Fil-A has a great write up of how they run K8s on racks in every restaurant: https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/edge-computing-at-chick-fil-...

Typical small businesses don't have the resources of needs to do any of that. They are already far more likely to invest in turnkey technology like Salesforce, Square, etc than provision anything at all in the cloud on their own.
UA's Doomsday Preppers Propose Lunar Ark to Store Backup Copy of Earth's Bounty
What does China have to do with this?
> but I bet this is a lot of corporate type's worst nightmare, that some underling added some segment of GPL code to their product, and now the entire thing is "technically" GPL.

IANAL, but I'm pretty sure this is _not_ how it works. Your code doesn't magically "become" licensed under GPL if you use GPL code. Your code is now in _violation_ of the GPL and one way of fixing it is to re-license your code. Another way is to eliminate the dependency.

However, if you decide to re-license to GPL then you may still have to pay damages for the time you were violating GPL.

In practice I can't imagine that a court would make anyone pay anything for this incident.
Looks like there is a proposal to completely replace the gem: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/41751/files
Intel lays out a new direction at Unleashed
I visited Uppsala briefly over only a few days.

As I explored this incredible University town I discovered the most special treasure..

The “Silver Bible”, not a Christian bible but a collection of “all the knowledge of the day” encased in a silver cover. It had been lost for 500 years and discovered again under some floorboards. To this day one of the most amazing world treasures I’ve seen with my own eyes.

There’s much to discover in this world.

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/f...
Secrets in general leak into source code all the time, nothing specific about PyPI.
This is awesome. I've been reading about the complaints from mods regarding the way admins do things without any consultation or even warning for years, so it's pretty cool to see it happen the other way for once. I have 0 faith that reddit will do anything reasonable here, so I'm pretty curious to see what happens next.
Ah, right, so it doesn't make it automatically GPL2 unless they want to continue to distribute it - and presumably only the original GPL2 licence-holder(s) are in the position to raise the issue of past infringement-via-distribution.

And so presumably unless rails was actively distributing bundles with it they'd would not be counted as "distributing" this GPL dependency.

It does sound like exactly the sort of hole that AGPL is designed to close is the saving grace here?
The major canals aren't around big population centers so blowing something like that up wouldn't make a huge impact. Also due to the structure of a canal (limited blast containment; most of a ship is above the surface) the actual damage would be limited.
From what I can see it may be:

- A bad or gone-bad automated system;

- Outsourced incompetent people;

- A try to soft push out what they don't like (it still takes patience and effort to deal with this);

- Some mix in between.

For sure, malice or not, it's flawed.
Whenever I think that I remember that I've been the recipient of snarky notes about this or that and while it's possible I'm an irredeemable reprobate, I'd prefer rather to think that like most people I'm sometimes not as considerate as I might be and open to polite feedback.
I remember when Reddit was considered a bastion of free speech. It's amazing how the culture's changed so quickly. But it does appear like this particular incident is a mistake made by automated moderation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/mbqgx2/a_clarif...
> But somehow it’s OK for them to modify all the art assets to get the same effect of making the software as a whole effectively proprietary

Stallman believes it should be legal to redistribute all art non-commercially. That is his political belief, outside the scope of free software, however. https://stallman.org/articles/guardian-correction.html

I just don't feel like it's practical to ask game companies to distribute ALL assets semi-freely, and somehow still make a profit. Let me know if you come up with a good business model.
People can of course downvote me for whatever reason they want. I do object to you calling this an advertisement. Sure, it links to my employer's website, but it is an OSS build library that addresses licensing issues.

Yes, GIGO applies, but what about the underlying Gem? Was the XML file relicensed? (Haven't dug into that issue 97 referenced in the GH thread.)

Edit: from sibling comments, looks like this build system wouldn't have caught the underlying issue, which was a GPL licensed, unmarked file copied in.
Just install any Oracle middleware or Oracle product, The Oracle H1B's will have your tablespace all used up in a matter of days with their shit code.
It's not, though, the Venus atmosphere does not behave like an ideal gas all around, it transitions into a supercritical dense liquid towards the ground.
It's not that they make use of open source. It's that some have the gall to expect developers to contribute to open source in their own time, rather than working on their own projects or contributing to open source on the company's dime (the last one being, by far, the best option for humanity as a whole in a vacuum).

Though the main problem is in companies expecting too much from their employees (see: "looking for starter with 5 years of experience in framework X Y Z, language A B C and preferably knows devops front to back"), it is somewhat naïve to expect a passive force can only be beneficial to everyone while the majority power is still in hands of employers and employees are too decentralized and unorganized to fight it.
>It appears to be fallout from the admin(s) banning people over any mention of that UK ex-politician's name.

Apparently one of the reddit admins is the ex-politician.
By default, you are I deed right.

However, you can use Firefox Nightly and install any extension you want.
Node's lack of a robust standard library results in significant dependency bloat, even for small projects. I often choose other languages (Racket, Python) for most projects because of this. I tend to consider a large number of dependencies as a risk for the stability and maintainability of projects. Through this lens, adding date handling to the standard library can make sense, I think.
It kind of unbelievable that reddit would hire someone as an admin that has such a colored and sketch background. They need to fire her asap.
the cost, feasibility, and moral imperative of each of those things is vastly different. "curing cancer" has been happening and world hunger has been dropping for decades now, mind uploading is still far on the horizon, and thinking of terraforming at this stage seems silly
So many words about race, nationality, community, white privilege and literally no mention of wealth, economic inequality or at least increased mobility of labour. This is what I “love” about modern American discourse.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/mbzggv/why_ha...

This seemed like a decent summary of what happened and why. Though I am not sure of the accuracy.
Create up to 3 notes? Srsly? :-) I don't need to collaborate to 50 people like a real "pro" would but I won't even bother registering to create 3 notes. Something around 1000 notes would make a reasonable limit for a free personal edition.