skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not talking about people actively approving it. I am talking about people passively allowing it to happen. For this mess to have even happened in the first place, the entire workforce at UMN had to look at that and go "yep, there's nothing ethically wrong with this" and just passively let it happen. At best this shows their unchecked desire to destroy OSS projects.

What is their end goal, exactly? I have no idea. The research paper they already put out seems like a charade for whatever that goal was, and we can only speculate.

For this reason nobody can trust anybody working at UMN or anybody getting educated through UMN.
https://bscscan.com/address/0x8c7de13ecf6e92e249696defed7aa8...

Probably somewhere in here.
Not just this world, other worlds too [0].

The first extraterrestrial software crime?

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/19/22291324/linux-perseveran...
> The caviet of moving files to the Linux file system is kind of a big one.

Trying not to sound reductive, but either it's an issue for you or not. It's really going to depend on your use case which should be super apparent for you.

I do all my web development within WSL2 and its great. I suspect this is the main use case they're optimising for.
You claimed that no one would go to the effort. It is clear that they will.

Nation states don't have a global network of iPhones.

> Passive trackers will let you pinpoint someone indefinitely.

How?

> Puhlease. If a nation state is chasing you and this is what turns the tides I strongly suggest turning yourself into their embassy now, save yourself the trouble.

"Puhlease" enjoy pretending that nation states are all IDF 8200 elite cyber hackers. The future ubiquity and deniability of these devices will see them feature widely. And some people do need to defend against skilled attackers who can buy custom gear from Shenzhen, and telling them to give up is stupid.
Is this inspired by HyperTalk/AppleScript, which are also english-like?
I block all ads and I don't think i've ever purchased something from an AD, even when i see them elsewhere or on instagram ect.

I honestly wonder what makes me different to you? I definitely don't have self control like that in other aspects of my life. Maybe it's I'm skeptical and figure ever ad is trying to swindle me out of my money maybe?
You should not treat an unethical company ethically.
I think my kids were breast fed for 2-3 months and then another 1-2 months from frozen milk and finally a gradual move to formula by mixing the breast milk and formula so that there's no sudden transition if the child isn't used to the taste, etc.

No qualms at all about using formula within the first 4-6 months.
Menuwhere: The menu where you are
Can spam doesn't really have teeth, I would recommend changing the email on your account.
I think GregKH complained to the university previously and then, when presented with continuing bad/bad-faith patches, decided to blow up their world very publicly.
But bad people don’t follow some mythical ethical framework and announce they’re going to rob the bank prior to doing it. There absolutely are pen tests conducted where only a single person out of hundreds is looped in. Is it unethical for supervisors to subject their employees and possibly users to those such environments? Since you can’t prevent this behavior at large, I take solace that it happened in a relatively benign way rather than having been done by a truly malicious actor. No civilians were harmed in the demonstration of the vulnerability. Security community doesn't get to have their cake and eat it too. All this responsible disclosure “ethics” is nonsense. This is full disclosure, it’s how the world actually works. The response from the maintainers to me indicates they are frustrated at the perceived waste of their time, but to me this seems like a justified use of human resources to draw attention to a real problem that high profile open source projects face. If you break my trust I’m not going to be happy either and will justifiably not trust you in the future, but trying to apply some ethical framework to how “good bad actors” are supposed to behave is just silly IMO. And the “ban the institution” feels more like an “I don't have time for this” retaliation than an “I want to effectively prevent this behavior in the future” response that addresses the reality. For all we know Linus and Greg could have and still might be onboard with the research and we’re just seeing the social elements of the system now tested. My main point is maybe do a little more observing and less condemning. I find the whole event to be a fascinating test of one of the known vulnerabilities large open source efforts face.
Adequate use of resources seems like a bizarre reasoning. Do you also evaluate how a candidates alma mater compensates its football staff before you hire?
> “The good teams […] don’t make more mistakes; they report more.” — Amy C. Edmondson

This is rediscovering what has been going on (or at least held as the ideal) in the military for quite some time.

It's a two way street of accepting a contrary opinion on one side, and continuing to work as a team when that contrary opinion is rejected. I know it's popular among some to view the military as brainwashed morons, but it is a conscious decision to execute orders that one disagrees with. Otto von Bismarck Quote: “A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.”
Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal
>What messages were removed? What if they were useful to me?

They could list them, but do you think anybody would care to read them?
That's why for pen testing, you still warn people, but you do it high enough the chain that the individual behaviors and responses are not affected.
The problem with subcontinent countries is that their citizens mostly believe in pseudo science promoted by religious celebrities. Yesterday I was reading that Baba Ram Dev has suggested to inhale olive oil which will push covid-19 virus in stomach where it'd be killed by stomach acid. Such ppl exist here in Pakistan too one way and other and I see ppl don't bother to use masks when going mosques. Not sure what kind of stuff do these guys smoke.
> I used WSL1 when it launched and it was _incredible_. Bash actually on Windows. My workflow changed because of the level of integration I had with Windows. I could run browser automation tools against my Windows browsers, from Linux. I could run Windows programs from bash.

Cygwin has been able to do this for 2 decades, actual bash plus other unix tools compiled to actual windows exe's. You can even run some gui tools if you run an xserver on windows.

Even WSL1 wasn't as good, there were too many issues like tail not working properly on windows files, issues with network shares, interop, etc. I pretty quickly reverted to cygwin.
Google hires lots of different kinds of people, including new grads, graduate students, experienced engineers, people with PhD’s, and professors. Your previous experience is going to affect what kind of work you can get.
I agree with the headline, but the arguments in the article are a bit all over the place.

Bootstrap, Tailwind and other libraries are abstractions because CSS as a core skill is quite complex. Sort of like the English language, the ratio of rules to exceptions is too high.

If your team doesn't know CSS very well, you have your designers stick to bootstrap, tailwind etc grids/designs.

You can make PLENTY of beautiful, functional, readable, designs within the frameworks. When you do, your deigns work in mobile, web and there are significantly less things to worry about.
Articles about it:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/william_burroughs_gus_va... - "Buddhist noir" - nice.

https://www.openculture.com/2018/07/discipline-d-e-gus-van-s...
I want to run a git GUI occasionally for my codebase that's in WSL2.
Is the performance better or worse than using something like VcXsrv or other vnc forwarding application?
That's for people who have 20+ tabs open.

For most of us they're a meh
No, the reason I run Windows is because I actually love using it and developing applications with it, not because I'm not capable of installing another OS.
Annecdotally, I've seen a few posts complaining about the quality of the posts in the sub as new users have flooded in. But I haven't been paying attention long enough to know how true it is.
Ferrofluid display cell Bluetooth speaker
> also those of other evidence acquired afterwards

And prior extracts on the device.
Following up on the lightmode request. It's difficult to switch from income statement to cashflow or balance sheet because the menu is dark text on dark background. Additionally, you may want to add some spacing between % return and current price in the top leaders section to improve visuals for stocks with prices > $1,000.
"Toaster ready to accept toast."

No, it's ready to accept bread. The utility of putting a toast into a toaster is vanishingly small.
Post is here and let folks take a look.
I really like WSL. Some weeks ago I switched to Ubuntu again because developing is still a nightmare on Windows. But what really impressed me was how much faster it is.
I’m absolutely not like you, I tune out ads but internalize them, but I’m happy for you that you live in this time. At least you have options to live an ad-free life. I guess you would have been the person to buy a Foreman grill and a Bowflex if you had lived in the 80s.
if you use google, then yes you did
I have always struggled with Wolfgang Münchau
The entire statement has only 2 paragraphs, and says absolutely nothing at all about rescinding the ban.
Related: Comcast injects upgrade advertisements in http pages.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890551
Perhaps ironically Tailwind has helped me understand CSS much better than I used to. Adam Wathan has some brilliantly elucidating tutorials on his YouTube channel.
Note from the reader: said associate department head, Loren Terveen, is one of the two signers of the CS&E statement.
Tried it out on Debian Bullseye x86_64:

$ objdump -w -j .text --no-show-raw-insn -d /usr/bin/emacs-gtk | egrep '^ *[0-9]+:' | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq | wc -l
130

$ objdump -w -j .text --no-show-raw-insn -d /bin/ls | egrep '^ *[0-9]+:' | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq | wc -l
97

$ objdump -w -j .text --no-show-raw-insn -d firefox-bin | egrep '^ *[0-9]+:' | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq | wc -l
136
There are only three alignments for tech corporations:

Lawful Neutral (Apple)

Lawful Evil (Google)

Chaotic Evil (Facebook, Twitter)
You are totally missing the forest for the trees. Is there a single piece of information or revelation from the “laptop” that has been disputed, denied, or debunked? No. More importantly, have the mainstream American press managed to get the Bidens to address any of the insinuations stemming from materials? They haven’t even tried: they’ve decided to settle for whatever generic comment the Bidens put out through their press agents.
My favorite "secret weapon" for JS debugging is sprinkling my .js templates with statements like this:

//alert('DEBUG: FunctionName() begins, param1 = ' + param1 + '; param2 = ' + param2);

My JS injector has a 'debug' setting, which rewrites all of those statements into one of: console.log(), document.title=(), or confirm(), the latter of which stops appearing after I press 'No' or 'Cancel'.

When not debugging on a modern browser with debugging tools like IE6+VS, Firefox, Opera, Safari, or Chrome, it is a real time-saver to be able to toggle those messages, kind of like a poor man's breakpoint.

(I develop retro sites which are designed to live up to the "any browser" dream, so I test with NN2+, IE3+, and Opera3+, in addition to Lynx, w3m, Links, Dillo, NetSurf etc., not to mention the mainstream FF, Chrome, Edge, Safari.)
The story is by Burroughs but that narrator is not the dry, timeless Burroughs voice, which sounds like...papyrus with ancient secrets inscribed on it, which has seen it all.

Edit: here's the Voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-p68gSp4eE#t=5

Edit 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ajahePtEaY#t=66 (music by John Cale)

Edit 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daYvKq87cv4

Edit 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kwcJpX_Zg
From reading other comments about the context surrounding these events, it sounds to me like this probably was an actual newbie who made an honest (if lazy) mistake and was then caught up in the controversy surrounding his advisor's past research.

Or perhaps it really is a second attempt by his advisor at an evil plot to sneak more buggy patches into the kernel for research purposes? Either way, the response by the maintainers seems rather disproportionate to me. And either way, I'm ultimately grateful for the (apparently unwanted?) attention being drawn to the (apparent lack of) security surrounding the Linux kernel patch review process.
Recursion
Abstract Classes
Pointers, thanks to Golang I don't feel so insecure anymore.
Pocket seems to be the only menu item visible by default, and they've adopted the idea of searching on Google from the URL bar. Is Mozilla short on cash again?
Heck, I'd be happy with them using their app on five year old hardware.
Like I said in this thread, I tried and could not get it working. I am curious how other people got it working, since we are using the same tool and seeing the same webpage.
He's not an adjunct.

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/

Adjuncts don't have Ph.D students.
I've actually unsubscribed 2 times and Xfinity still sends me marketing emails. I have never been an Xfinity customer myself, put in an address once and never went to their site again.
He's not an adjunct.

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoOUBETTyMI above. Thanks!
Charter calls me almost twice a week. Or at least marketing companies offering charter services. Plus one piece of mail a week offering some kind of deal.

Edit: They are Spectrum now
You sound just like a religious zealot.
Your insinuation that I think there may have been no wrongdoing is unjustified and insulting. The behavior has been halted from both sides, no more active harm is being done; your urgency is misplaced. Somehow you think it's unreasonable to investigate before casting judgement -- as if justice itself is invalid if not met out at the pace of a twitter mob's attention span.
In the process of changing my meds again. Sadly they never last longer than 6 months to maybe a year. It's a frustrating process honestly. So, I tend to lie as to how well I'm doing just due to the fact I don't want to take a dive into a deep depression for months while they work out the kinks again. I guess the mania is better than the depression, even though I know it's unhealthy. Well they both are so, not sure what I can do till the science improves.
It’s so annoying. ALL Comcast emails now go to my spam folder because of this. Pretty sure I’ll never miss anything significant.
This is your point of view.

For me the ribbon is completely stupid as you have to constantly click 2 times for the features you want to go from one toolbar to another.

And worse, you often have to click through multiple of them just to find the function that you are looking for. It is even more difficult as each one will have its buttons of random size, aspect and randomly placed.
Can they just finish their thought and just make it 100% Linux? We don't need windows.
> But I don't think you can say "a group that calls itself socialist has at least this one left-leaning trait" isn't a position reasonable people can disagree on.

It is to anybody actually familiar with the history of the NSDAP. The "socialism" in their name was mostly PR, what little socialist currents existed in the early NSDAP, represented by the Strasser brothers, was bloodily purged during the Night of the Long Knives.

It's for that reason the very first victims in the concentration camp Dachau were not just Jews, they where German leftist political opposition Jews: Communists, socialists, antifascists, killed as early as 1933. The very same reason why Nazis considered the communist USSR as their arch-nemesis.

> What I find worse than people going both ways on wether nazis are left or right leaning, is someone in a position of authority like wikipedia saying, one side is objectively right [about a question that isn't even rigorously posed] and will be treated as such.

All this information can be found on Wikipedia, not just there, but also local Wikipedias from the places it actually happened. Like the Fuerth Wikipedia being even more in-depth and detailed [0], which is the city next to Nuremberg, both very relevant places for the early rise of Nazism.

That's why it's really not this "open debate" you make it out to be. The only people who insist on that are usually US Americans, due to the caricature "atheist socialist leftist" boogeyman that's been peddled to them for decades and some Eastern Europeans with post-communism shock, to justify their ideological hard shift to the right into often straight up fascism.

[0] https://www.fuerthwiki.de/wiki/index.php/Rudolf_Benario
I can relate, my Computer Architecture course at UT Austin was taught by a adjunct professor who was a technical fellow at Intel. He gave exactly zero fucks, and assigned us a level of work and expectation that at a minimum consumed 20-30 hours of my week. I failed chemistry to get an A in this class, and despite coming to the same realization that I wanted nothing to do with hardware, I left understanding what it meant to actually work hard.
They generally state that this was found with so-and-so static analysis tool. And, as GKH pointed out in the thread, the resulting patches generally make changes that match a certain pattern, not the random uselessness that Aditya's patches were.
My parents never got a lot of phone calls to their landline until they signed up for Comcast. They had Verizon for years but DSL was aging on their daily usage so I moved them to cable. Non-stop spam calls all day. I had to buy one of those boxes that plugs into the phone line to cut back on the amount they were receiving. This coincidentally started a week after they got Comcast. I am convinced Comcast sells their info or they have data leaking somewhere.
I think it's more about, what will they be able to claim as an achievement on their resume. None of them want to say "kept the site majestically usable in the same way so that ever larger ecosystems started depending on it", even though that's what we want.
I am baffled by the immaturity and carelessness of experimenting on a kernel that millions of critical machines use, and I applaud the maintainers for dealing swiftly with this.
It's also a problem in the United States - led by Dr Oz and Fox News
The main reason I gave up Google as default search engine is that results were not good and I couldn't find material.

Duckduckgo provides generally better results and has some very cool gadgets (like stack overflow answer expansion).

Google is winning on businesses' opening hours and safe search on images is not as safe as Google, which is the single caveat I need to remember about before looking for something.
>A post with a bad comment to up vote ratio usually means that a flame war is going on.

No it doesn't, not unless most comments typicaly get upvoted, which seems counterintuitive to me.

A bad comment to downvote ratio indicates a flamewar, since there are no flamewars without downvotes, but more comments than upvotes just means high comment velocity (which can go either way) or just that no one is saying anything particularly interesting, which isn't implicitly harmful.

A flamewar detector that hides popular threads to suppress engagement just in case there might be a flamewar is working at cross purposes with the goal of a forum, which is engagement.
This issue is you miss the email telling you the cc wasn’t able to be charged and your account is being termed.
> Sound is also about vibration, and music is also about energy. As the inventor Nikola Tesla said in the 1940s: ‘If you wish to understand the Universe, think of energy, frequency and vibration.’

I have always thought that any extraterrestrial visitors are more likely to be interested in human music more than human mathematics.
Depends on the team. I think we need to define basic understanding here, too many front end devs don’t have what I would call a basic understanding of CSS.
What this proves to me is that perhaps lightweight contributions to the kernel should be done in safe languages that prevent memory leaks and with tooling that actively highlights memory safety issues like use after free. Broader rust adoption in the kernel cant come soon enough.

I also consider Greg’s response just as much a test of UMN’s internal processes as the researcher’s attempt at testing kernel development processes. Hopefully there will be lessons learned on both sides and this benign incident makes the world better. Nobody was hurt here.
The best way is to apply for a job in a computational biology lab or research center. Maybe read a few papers too. Most of them need software developers. If you do good work you'll be a co-author.

Another path is to join one of the many many NGS startups where you too can analyze Nextseq data.

That will give you sufficient credentials to get into a PhD program if you want to do that.

Also there's an ex-hedge fund guy D.E. Shaw who runs a comp bio group, also Wolfram and all the big tech companies have comp bio groups.

Work there, see if you like it, that may give you an opportunity to enroll in a PhD if you want.

It will probably pay less than you'd make in a regular software job but its enough to live on and likely interesting work.

No matter where you go find a lab that is generating data. Data is the key.
What was faster? Native Ubuntu that's my experience. I couldn't tolerate speed issues on WSL
My analysis of that exact same quote was that it was insincere cover to allow them to continue operating an anti-OSS agenda which was made clear in the paper itself.
Hey, if people who rely on open source software really believe it's critical, they are more than welcome to hire engineers to audit every line they use a dozen times over. You could find many interested and capable people on this website. But the fact is a great deal of computing (and really "society") runs on an assumption of good faith, and it's just not an interesting discovery that anti-social behavior pisses people off.
Unfortunately “no” doesn’t constitute a rebuttal, and the responding commenter makes many valid points.

It is self-evident that this study tangibly involved people in the scope, those people did not provide consent prior, and now openly state their grievances. It is nothing short of arguing in bad faith to claim otherwise.
No the parent is correct- malicious commits made it into stable.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/78ac6ee8-8e7c-bd4c-a3a7-5a90c7c...

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/CADVatmNgU7t-Co84tSS6VW=3N...
> Every manager has their own manager right up to the company board. If you have to let people go, then how can you say you are not going to fire the guy who is the most checked out? If the person cannot deliver you cannot guarantee they won't lose their job.

Most checked out is not the same thing as can't deliver. In a well-functioning organisation one would hope that managers would assess people on how much they were actually delivering rather than how involved they sounded, and would have support from the structure above them in that.
I don't want poo poo too much over this, because I like the fact that MS at least seems to be trying, but is it a common need at all? Who is the target audience here. I am not a developer so it is possible I am missing a use case.

I am on popos now and when I need windows, I VM into one. Obviously it works the other way works as well.
If I had to add up the number of times everybody I know offline (in the real world) has run into SWAT teams that massive number is still 0. So to me the risk of danger by SWAT teams is low.