skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "prices aren't determined by supply alone, they are determined by supply and demand"

What we saw with the ICOs in 2017 and early 2018 is that there was a surge in demand for Ethereum to participate in the ICOs, which in turn sent the price shooting up. However, when new ICOs started to dry up in mid-2018 the demand also dried up, and when the companies that received all the Ethereum started to cash out the supply shot up, sending the prices right down. We could see something similar with NFTs.
There isn't a relationship between the two in terms of API. However the team that designed the Berkeley DB storage engine went on to commercialise it via a company called SleepyCat. That company was acquired by Oracle. The team subsequently left Oracle to found WiredTiger (SleepyCat, WiredTiger, geddit? :-)). WiredTiger was focussed on building a modern database storage engine focussed on high CPU count, high memory footprint servers. In 2014 MongoDB acquired WiredTiger and that is now the main storage engine for MongoDB. Interesting Footnote, Michael Cahill is the primary author of "Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases" [0] the paper that introduced Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI). SSI is the concurrency control mechanism used in Postgres [1][2].
[0] - https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse444/08au/544M/R...

[1] - https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SSI

[2] - http://drkp.net/papers/ssi-vldb12.pdf
LinkedIn is basically Stepford Smiler Central. There is no good argument to link back to a LinkedIn profile for dating purposes vs just saying the other person has a profile as an FYI.
JADBio's AutoML for Stool Classification (no pun intended)
Europe isn't the world policeman. Most neighboring countries want to join EU for good reason.

In Ukraines case, do you really think they don't want to become more like any EU country? I know plenty of people from Lviv. That 'coup' was not staged by 'the west', but was a force within their own population that want a better standard of life.

So please don't compare US involvement in any Middle east country to the EU and their neighboring countries.
Will change everything .
Perhaps they wish to improve kernel security by pushing reviewers to be more careful.

Or to prove its overall insecurity.
Holy cow!! I'm a researcher and don't understand how they thought it would be okay to not do an IRB, and how an IRB would not catch this. The linked PDF by the parent post is quite illustrative. The first few paras seem to be downplaying the severity of what they did (did not introduce actual bugs into the kernel) but that is not the bloody problem. They experimented on people (maintainers) without consent and wasted their time (maybe other effects too .. e.g. making them vary of future commits from universities)! I'm appalled.
In any university I've ever been to, this would be a gross violation of ethics with very unpleasant consequences. Informed consent is crucial when conducting experiments.

If this behaviour is tolerated by the University of Minnesota (and it appears to be so) then I suppose that's another institution on my list of unreliable research.

I do wonder what the legal consequences are. Would knowingly and willfully introducing bad code constitute a form of vandalism?
That’s just absolutely baseless on so many levels
They are sending BUGS,
and wasting time of people approving patches,
in useless and idiotic manner
What are the legal ramifications of running such proxy? For instance, if a group of people coordinate a criminal activity and it is proven that they used the proxy to communicate?
Could owner of such proxy become liable?
In this post they say the patches come from a static analyser and they accuse the other person of slander for their criticisms

> I respectfully ask you to cease and desist from making wild accusations that are bordering on slander.

> These patches were sent as part of a new static analyzer that I wrote and it's sensitivity is obviously not great. I sent patches on the hopes to get feedback. We are not experts in the linux kernel and repeatedly making these statements is disgusting to hear.

( https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah... )

How does that fit in with your explanation?
They apparently didn't consider this "human research"

As I understand it, any "experiment" involving other people that weren't explicitly informed of the experiment before hand needs to be a lot more carefully considered than what they did here.
> In my view, he made the wrong choice.

I agree, but it's his choice to make. Money in the hand today is better than tomorrow.

As a very casual JRE listener, he's completely gone from my radar since he moved to Spotify. Reminds me a lot of when Stern went to satellite. The show lost its widespread relevance almost overnight. And when the show loses relevance, it becomes harder to get the best guests and it becomes a slow downward spiral to bland/repetitive.
The problem here is really that they’re wasting time of the maintainers without their approval. Any ethics board would require prior consent to this. It wouldn’t even be hard to do.
> For a year

The first vaccine only came out about 4 months ago.

However, you are right - the EU has donated about 30 million doses, enough for 15 million people. It's not nothing, but not that much either.
Their first suggestion to the process is pure gold:"OSS projects would be suggested to update the code of conduct, something like “By submitting
the patch, I agree to not intend to introduce bugs”"

Like somebody picking your locks, and suggesting, 'to stop this one approach would be to post a sign "do not pick"'
It is my opinion that the Daily Mail is a work of fiction loosely inspired by the real world, but ultimately as disconnected from reality as Stross’s Laundry Files series.

I have no idea if their claims against Google have any merit.

Nevertheless, I want a society with rules that will protect even the worst amongst us from misbehaviour by others: pre-judging based on reputation alone leads to in-groups with power, power corrupts and attracts the corrupt, and it would all end badly.
> When you have infinite amounts of money, you can dictate the risk premium.

But how? If you're an investor who is considering buying government bonds, how can the government dictate the interest rate that you are willing to accept in return for buying the bonds?
Thanks for the link. I didn't know the developer could prevent reCAPTCHA from appearing.
Many of those actually do cause cancer :/

I'm surprised Corbyn wasn't on the list.
That’s about as useful as to answer the question “what is this company doing?” with “trying to make money”.
> You do not experiment on people without their consent.

Exactly this. Research involving human participants is supposed to have been approved by the University's Institutional Review Board; the kernel developers can complain to it: https://research.umn.edu/units/irb/about-us/contact-us

It would be interesting to see what these researches told the IRB they were doing (if they bothered).

Edited to add:
From the link in GP: "The IRB of UMN reviewed the study and determined that this is not human research (a formal IRB exempt letter was obtained)"

Okay so this IRB needs to be educated about this. Probably someone in the kernel team should draft an open letter to them and get everyone to sign it (rather than everyone spamming the IRB contact form)

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It's a near perfect example of the dangers 'publish or perish'.
According IRS Startups Income
citation from FAQs - Free File Alliance
“Free File preparation and e-filing assistance is available to taxpayers who have a 2020 Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) of $72,000 or less.”
citation from IRS page above
"As long as you qualify for the Free File federal return offer, you must not be charged for preparation and e-filing of a federal tax return"
Startups and small businesses are taxpayers.
These are hard times. Many LLC small businesses are defaulting or going out of business due to covid as we speak.
Many startups didn’t receive EIN and had zero revenue or loss (450$ Delaware franchising tax?800$ CA Tax).

109$ via cheapest TaxAct to send zero revenue or loss to IRS or face 25000$ fine for not filling 5472 is absurd

IRS search shown 6 agents.

Do they provide free e-filling for all taxpayers with <$72k income? = startups or small business ?

freetaxact.com no
freefile.intuit.com no
freetaxusa.com/freefile2020 no
1040now.net/freefile.htm no
taxslayer.com/americanpledge no
freetaxes.free1040taxreturn.com no

I filled IRS feedback to form 1120 got no response
Apr 3, 2021, 5:54 PM got just Robotic Non-Response 1 from helpdesk@freefilealliance.org:
Apr 3, 2021, 6:30 PM Robotic Non-Response 1 from phishing@irs.gov

After lengthy email exchange with TaxAct I got sentences "Also, the IRS FREE FILE is for individual taxpayers, not businesses."
or "if you use the IRS Free File | Internal Revenue Service product look up tool, you will see there is no category for business taxes" to which I replied
If IRS or Free Filing Alliance actually meant that
only individual taxpayers are eligible for free federal tax filing.
They would simply clearly said so by using word “individual taxpayer” everywhere they used word “taxpayer” in sentences defining eligibility for free filing."

The best would be calling IRS and Free Filing Alliance by phone due to responding to emails.But mine engliish. sux.

Will some brave soul rise to the occasion?
From https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/CADVatmNgU7t-Co84tSS6VW=3N...,

> A lot of these have already reached the stable trees.

If the researchers were trying to prove that it is possible to get malicious patches into the kernel, it seems like they succeeded -- at least for an (insignificant?) period of time.
The VM/CMS approach to computing?
Deno, One Year and Two Hundred Patches Later
Primal Flow Review, Legit or a Scam?
In addition—to take this out side of board games—as someone that is not good at sports, I like sports usually only when there is a lot of added randomness so I can get at least a lucky shot or two, even if I will loose most likely loose the game as a whole. For example when I play basketball I like it a lot better when we play on a coarse concrete, with crooked baskets and a peeling ball. Another examples include: laser-tag (er even better a nerf-gun fight) vs paint ball and disk-golf vs. traditional golf.
>I sent patches on the hopes to get feedback

They did not say that they were hoping for feedback on their tool when they submitted the patch, they lied about their code doing something it does not.

>How does that fit in with your explanation?

It fits in the narrative of doing hypocritical changes to the project.
> Landlords, however, earn money by charging for access to something they did not produce

Not only did they not produce it, in many places they (or the ancestors they inherited it from) actively stole it from the original inhabitants. e.g. The Inclosure Acts, Colonialism, etc.
I think I'm right in saying that, providing you fork from any commit before the introduction of the AGPL license, you can continue with Apache-licensed Grafana. Sounds like the way forward.
> (3). We send the incorrect minor patches to the Linux community through email to seek their feedback.

Sounds like they knew exactly what they were doing.
Later down thread from Greg K-H:

> Because of this, I will now have to ban all future contributions from
your University.

Understandable from gkh, but I feel sorry for any unrelated research happening at University of Minnesota.

EDIT: Searching through the source code[1] reveals contributions to the kernel from umn.edu emails in the form of an AppleTalk driver and support for the kernel on PowerPC architectures.

In the commit traffic[2], I think all patches have come from people currently being advised by Kangjie Liu[3] or Liu himself dating back to Dec 2018. In 2018, Wenwen Wang was submitting patches; during this time he was a postdoc at UMN and co-authored a paper with Liu[4].

Prior to 2018, commits involving UMN folks appeared in 2014, 2013, and 2008. None of these people appear to be associated with Liu in any significant way.

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=%22umn.edu%22

[2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=%22umn.edu%22&typ...

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

[4]: http://cobweb.cs.uga.edu/~wenwen/
This is ridiculously unethical research. Despite the positive underlying reasons treating someone as a lab rat (in this case maintainers reviewing PRs) feels almost sociopathic.
Haskell is this kind of language which makes hard things easy when you are smart and easy things hard for everyone else.
Actually, most fundamentally understand what's happened. We've all seen these things before; the embarrassing identifying characteristics of unchecked power.
The intro screen alone would cost 150,000 USD in gas fees alone
> ... or capital that would otherwise have been used elsewhere.

Or not used.

Throughout all of this, I don't generally disagree with your reasoning, but you're basing it all on assumptions I reject.
According to their website[0]:

> IRB exempt was issued

[0]: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/
And i'm pretty sure that Donbas (separatist region) is receiving weapons not from the west. So in Ukrainian scenario i'm nor sure who has destabilised that region. By the way if you look at Ukrainian GDP over time it shows growth over past years.
Microsoft seem to have trouble naming things.

Xbox One X, Xbox One S, Xbox series X, Xbox series S.

And also: Is Outlook the same as Office365? Is Outlook the new Live? Did Hotmail turn into Live? Am I the only confused by all of this?
Even if you assume ill intent it would make a lot more sense for China not to try and topple the US dollar dominance head on.
Could someone enlighten me on the internals, how is netdata able to get realtime granularity, whereas prometheus defaults to 15s?
I tangentially followed the debacle unfold for a while and this particular thread now has lead to heated debates on some IRC channels I'm on.

While it is maybe "scientifically interesting", intentionally introducing bugs into Linux that could potentially make it into production systems while work on this paper is going on, could IMO be described as utterly reckless at best.

Two messages down in the same thread, it more or less culminates with the university e-mail suffix being banned from several kernel mailing lists and associated patches being removed[1], which might be an appropriate response to discourage others from similar stunts "for science".

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah...
How do you add it to CICD? Does it pull down and create infra every new push to the master branch? What does the workflow look like?
Regression Testing Services
The article you’ve linked to doesn’t appear credible.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-629043235973
Seems like a worthwhile Chrome extension. Or to replace all paywall links with the internet archive link?
> Be sure to check the list of things they say will cause cancer https://www.lazerhorse.org/2013/06/15/list-daily-mail-give-c...

That list is more than a little misleading; it's outright lying in some cases:

The list says that DM said being left-handed causes cancer. The link to the DM article is simply reporting the peer-reviewed and published medical research that found a higher risk of breast cancer in a study of 12000 women.

Honestly, that list is more fake-news than "the russians did it!"
What journal is going to accept a study like this if they haven't obtained proper consent?
Ukraine is a big country. When you look at the part close to Russia, yes, that is a warzone. When you look at places like Lviv... warzone??? Yeah right, you can just travel there buddy.

Then you also get which country is doing the destabilization, and it sure as hell isn't the EU.
Ethereum is passé. Dogecoin is far superior and much wow better suited for the current meme era. Which is reflected in the share price.
I'm just about to start working on DB layer for our app with TypeScript. Any other alternatives to prisma you guys prefer and why?
>what US did to South Korea

You know South Korea was a dictatorship for many after the Korean War ended? The first dictator so loved by the US that they flew him to Hawaii to live out his life when people revolted against the regime. The second dictator got approval from the US.

Yes, North Korea is bad, but after having 85% of buildings and a larger proportional civillian death toll than Vietnam or WW2, I find it not strange they turned into a closed off dictatorship.

>Russian accusations of indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets did not register with the Americans at all. But for the North Koreans, living in fear of B-29 attacks for nearly three years, including the possibility of atomic bombs, the American air war left a deep and lasting impression. The DPRK government never forgot the lesson of North Korea's vulnerability to American air attack, and for half a century after the Armistice continued to strengthen anti-aircraft defenses, build underground installations, and eventually develop nuclear weapons to ensure that North Korea would not find itself in such a position again. ... The war against the United States, more than any other single factor, gave North Koreans a collective sense of anxiety and fear of outside threats that would continue long after the war's end.

https://apjjf.org/-Charles-K--Armstrong/3460/article.pdf
But that question is as deep and important to answer as yours :D What can anyone hope to accomplish by doing fake research ? Progress, wealth, peer approval, mating, pleasure ?

So answering that they hope to get more material for papers, which is the only goal of researchers (and their main KPI), is quite deeper an answer than the question required.
How would the lockdowns have made it worse? Could they have produced the exponential growth in cases and deaths that are currently observed in the official data?
They apparently made a tool to find vulnerabilities that could later lead to bugs is a different patch was introduced.

And for some insane reason, they decided to test if these kinds of bugs would be caught by inventing some and just submitting the patches, without informing anyone beforehand.

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....
Well to be honest there is different versions of socialism with different meanings. Some do put personal wealth as more important, or at least indirectly. If it is part of the market socialism side then wealth is used the same way to promote self-interest.

In market socialism the the difference from capitalism is stricter controls on business ownership (i.e. businesses must be coops or something along those lines).
> What's more concerning is that Proof of Wealth (which is what Stake really is), is just going to lead to those with biggest balances dictating rules to everyone else.

So if PoW and PoS both suffer the same problem of minority dictating rules to everyone else do you know of any consensus algorithm used in crypto that avoids that problem?
Xamarin.Forms isn't just unfinished. It's total garbage.

Plus you can't share UI code between Android and iOS. You still need to build the UI's natively with no code reuse.

Plus building and cross-compiling between Windows and Mac is hacky and painfully slow.

I wish Microsoft would get rid of Xamarin. Every Visual Studio update has a bugfix for it, usually relating to iOS.
Unethical and harmful.
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Nginx is mostly open-source. If anything, NSA can inject backdoors as well.
Netdata is a great building block in a monitoring system. It now does a lot of monitoring via eBPF, connects to Prometheus, and integrates with k8s.
I like to perform no-ops that keep the top of the stack fresh:

: NOP DUP SWAP DROP ;

Also:

Q: How many Northern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Hella!!!

Q: How many Southern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Totally!!!

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6492j904

http://people.duke.edu/~eec10/hellanorcal.pdf

Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California

Mary Bucholtz, Nancy Bermudez, Victor Fung, Lisa Edwards and Rosalva Vargas. Journal of English Linguistics 2007; 35; 325. DOI: 10.1177/0075424207307780

>Abstract

>This study provides the first detailed account of perceptual dialectology within California (as well as one of the first accounts of perceptual dialectology within any single state). Quantitative analysis of a map-labeling task carried out in Southern California reveals that California’s most salient linguistic boundary is between the northern and southern regions of the state. Whereas studies of the perceptual dialectology of the United States as a whole have focused almost exclusively on regional dialect differences, respondents associated particular regions of California less with distinctive dialects than with differences in language (English versus Spanish), slang use, and social groups. The diverse socio linguistic situation of California is reflected in the emphasis both on highly salient social groups thought to be stereotypical of California by residents and nonresidents alike (e.g., surfers) and on groups that, though prominent in the cultural landscape of the state, remain largely unrecognized by outsiders (e.g., hicks).

Extra credit question:

Can you locate the isogloss designating the "101" / "The 101" line?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogloss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIklKPzND20&ab_channel=Satur...
Software development market in Ukraine is flourishing because its completely decoupled from local economy with most people working in outsourcing companies. Hardly definition of success.

Country is in the middle of frozen civil war. GDP per person in Ukraine is still below 2013 and is half of GDP per person in Belarus.

Change in government need to come from within - not imposed by outsiders. Very few cases when revolution/regime change led to even ok outcome.

Besides problem with living in middle income soft authoritarian countries is mostly middle income and not authoritarian part. That’s the reason there is so much focus on corruption in protests - people just want more benefits/free money and assume that all money are stolen by corrupt government when in reality there is just not that much money in the country. Obviously regime change does not reduce corruption nor expand size of economy so all recent revolutions just made situation worse for common people.
Two can play this game. Look at Podnistria or Donbas.

Belarus split between a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 2.0 and a Totally-Not-Russian-Puppet-State, with several thousand young men's graves in between, isn't any better than Belarus today.
Regardless of their methods, I think they just proved the kernel security review process is non-existent. Either in the form of static analysis or human review. Whats being done to address those issues?
It does seem rather unethical, but I must admit that I find the topic very interesting. They should definitely have asked for consent before starting with the "attack", but if they did manage to land security vulnerabilities despite the review process it's a very worrying result. And as far as I understand they did manage to do just that?

I think it shows that this type of study might well be needed, it just needs to be done better and with the consent of the maintainers.
Seems to me they exposed a vulnerability in the way code is contributed.

If this was Facebook and their response was:
> ~"stop wasting our time"
> ~"we'll report you"
the responses here would be very different.
Wikinews discusses DRM and DMCA after GitHub re-enables access to YouTube-dl
The core doctrine of US foreign policy.