skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If UMN’s ethics board has approved this experiment in cooperation with Linus/Greg

No, informed consent must be with all participants and maintainers reviewing the patches. Why does Linus/Greg get to decide that for others?
It may even be the case that fewer people are seeking medical care for symptoms that they (correctly) think are just the flu. The lack of smell that COVID often causes is very distinct; easy to imagine people who are sick with the flu, but have not lost their sense of smell deciding to stay home both out of fear of covid, and because accessing medical care during a pandemic is less convenient.

Some people may also be worried that they do have covid (or will get a false positive), and don't want to get a positive test due to quarantine requirements, embarrassment, etc.
I love Emacs. I love Tramp. I love iTerm + Fish Shell more than eterm, though, so if I'm SSHing into a server it's from a terminal app outside of Emacs. In that situation, I'd rather use vim to make a quick tweak on a file than bounce to Emacs, tramp into the same machine I'm already in, and edit it that way.
I missed the part where Google created 1 trillion webpages of content, which is where the actual value of the internet lies.

Android relies on a ton of open source and free software--even just the kernel! If Google created their platform from scratch, then you'd have a point. They didn't.

And in most cases, Google did not even design or build the devices, and users have no choice but to buy a device with their software platform already installed on it. That platform actively prevents users from installing their own software and steers people towards a store where they take a massive cut. Android is like the Windows of the 21st century. Actually, it's worse. Sure there are alternatives, much like Linux and Apple were alternative desktops in the 90s and 2000s. Non-android OSes have even less share than those desktop alternatives did back in the day.
The kinds of things that Facebook most often receives flak for would be difficult to pursue though the layer of indirection that is sponsoring a foundation dedicated to the Rust programming language.

Similarly, since Facebook isn't a software vendor, the kinds of things that you might achieve by securing undue influence within the Rust Foundation don't really benefit them.
We fight this by giving everybody a token bit of public labor - tell someone they need to bring cookies, another needs to bring party-hats and someone else to bring punch and you'll find that they don't want to let others down.
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Perhaps in capability, not so much by reputation or social utility.
The notion that horizontal interdiction is responsible for this suppression is absolutely, positively absurd and will never stand up to scrutiny.

On the other hand, this patterns very neatly with previously observed and well-documented phenomena of viral interference, specifically with respect to influenza. Here's a good paper to start a journey of research on this topic: https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/212/11/1690/2911897
India's Covid-19 Crisis Is Spiraling Out of Control
An alternative explanation is that of "viral interference"[1,2], i.e., the most transmissible virus boosting up viral immunity in the population, and precluding transmission of the less transmissible/fit virus

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5489283/

[2]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...
This is a great step for the Rust Foundation and a sign that Rust is transitioning successfully to a foundation model rather than a Mozilla-centric organization.

It looks like some people are worried about Facebook's influence on Rust, but that doesn't seem like a huge concern to me. Facebook isn't going to want to influence Rust in any particularly "Facebooky" way since it's such a deep-in-the-infrastructure component. They will just have the same concerns that many other large tech companies have, like, can you use it successfully in an environment that has a zillion engineers and a zillion other programming languages to interoperate with. It's important for Rust to be nice to use at both big and small companies so that's a good sort of voice to have in the foundation.
> [with regards to y = A x:] This should look familiar, because it is a neural network layer with no activation function and no bias.

This line makes me think this might be satire. Are there really people who see y = A x and think neural networks?

Otherwise, a better title would be "The Fourier transform is a linear operation. (neural networks can do linear operations too)" ... which makes it pretty boring.
Four. Mostly, small ideas that I’m hoping would evolve into something bigger. I do agree thought that it leads to a lack of focus at times.

https://podradio.live
https://networkd.eu
https://arounda.world
https://3by3.app
These exercises should get televized, as is, to give the public a feel for the actual thing. None of the movies I've seen seem to accurately convey what might happen when an asteroid or a comet strikes the Earth, the actions of the goverments prior to that, and the aftermath.

Except perhaps one thing - the first thing the goverments do is lie ("to prevent panic").
The key take away, for me, has been that the Foundation that sent the demand letter does not have the balls to grant Stupid Prize to those that so diligently tried to win it.

A good demand letter announcing the winning of the Stupid Prize would have been to tell the university that it would be banned until it:

* fires the assistant professor

* terminates all the students that participated

with a note that should any of those students or a professor go to a different university that university would be banned as well.

Had that price would have been awarded it would have definitely made into future ethics classes.
> I've run into too many devs who salivated over the idea of embedding cryptominers in game clones to believe it isn't done on a semi-regular basis.

Reminds me of early days in my career when my mentor and I were discussing user issues with a library we maintained. I didn't realize it at the time, but he was messing with me by suggesting we add some hooks to report usage statistics back to us and use that to improve things.

I was young and naive so excuse that I got really excited at the genius of the idea. If not for his wry smile, I would have happily run off and implemented just that.
Well, there you have it. It creates jobs in the high-end mask accessories industry.
I like this, but gears are hard, because they need to be hard (and reasonably precise).

You can make toy gears with a 3D printer, but for any meaningful amount of torque transmission you need hard contact surfaces against each other which usually means metal, and forged, case-hardened metal.

If your contact surfaces are not perfectly in contact at all times (they never are) then you need something hard and also tough to absorb backlash in the geartrain.
Does it? Even pre-pandemic, I don’t think the massive Trump tax cut had the effect they claimed it would in employment (or much of anything else really). I could also argue that done right, fuller government coffers yields to more government spending and, if done right, which I grant you is a big stipulation, creates many more jobs, blue collar ones too.
Yes.

US: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=l...

Interesting to see the graph starting to drop dramatically in early 2020 after a decade of growth/high numbers.
1. All places had COVID responses, even places that didn't have state-wide rules. I doubt that there were any real number of Americans -- even in isolated communities -- whose lives were not impacted by public health stuff during COVID.

2. Having flu outside your border be rarer means less flu coming in.
As an employer, we have a office policy that advises people to refrain from talking about religion or politics in the office place.

At first, there were two people who pushed back very very vocally to this policy and refused to abide by it. After a few warnings, one quit and the other did something inappropriate that caused us to fire her.

I was really surprised by the reaction after that. People came up to me and thanked me. It turns out those two people were an enormous distraction for everyone at work, and actively created a divisive and uncomfortable environment. They were obsessing about politics and could not stop talking about it with their peers - badgering anyone that disagreed with them. One of them even tried to use the company website and social media accounts to champion her politics.

After her termination, we discovered that she was also collecting client invoices on her desktop computer. Apparently, she had it in her head that we were secretly overcharging customers (she apparently did not understand how compound interest works) and was planning on reporting the company to the financial authorities. Note that even when you're innocent, an accusation of fraud can cause serious reputational damage as well as huge legal fees associated.

Activists are absolute poison to a company. I feel that company's efforts to placate them are usually recipes for them to backfire.
While I am sure that masks and no working from the office played a part in this, I believe:

1) most flu cases are being mislabeled as covid

2) most people who have a mild flu are not going to the doctor

3) the easiest way to test this will be when covid goes away and the flu suddenly reappears.
you'd want an SD card reader in the brick, on the floor? that seems inconvenient. people were complaining when it moved from the side to the back of the imac.
Look, let me put this another way, since I'm being downvoted.

I think my 70 year old mum, who is a grandma, would find it patronising and sexist to have a device pitched to her as an easier to use version of the iPad she is a bloody master of in every way. She's far more adapt than my dad, bless him, but even he can use WhatsApp and the like fine after being shown.
So you predicate your argument on economic feasibility and then throw up "space mining"?!?! Not sure where to go with that. But look, I do want to get there, but even with all the Elon fanboi-ing in the world, we're not gonna get there in our lifetimes. At least 75-100 years out before it starts to make economic sense given current technology and risk/reward.

So if the company behind the deep-sea mining robot didn't think it was economically feasible, they wouldn't have built it. Obviously it does make economic sense and the best way to determine the ecologic impact is to do trials. And I did mention earlier that government regulation should also be in place. I don't see why this is such a hard thing for people to grasp.
I'd say the first two, but not heat signature. However, it's also lacking in sensors. As in, it has to operate low and slow in the daylight, because the pilot can't see well enough to operate any other time. The officially supported way to get low light/IR vision on it is to startup a Maverick missile on the wing and use the sensor on that to see.
The most popular Fedora Linux in years rolls out
Since that line could be interpreted as just "The Software/Language shall be used for Good", any software that is not explicitly "Good" would be forbidden to use Rust, effectively making Rust useless in 90% of companies.
If that is true, one would expect significant evidence to back it up exists. Studies on the effectiveness of gay conversion therapy suggest that your assertion is not based in fact.
The original Ishkur's Guide is one of those Flash projects now lost to time. This new one is OK, but doesn't come close to the original for me. I always loved electronic music, even as a kid. In the UK we regularly had tracks (trance especially) crossover into the charts. But before Ishkur's Guide I didn't really know what I was listening to. It opened up the door to a whole world of music for me.
I have the same problem with my parents and I initially thought the Windows 10 pin screen was quite good for this. You only need 4 numbers, I set it to my birthdate and it's made things somewhat easier for them.

That was until my mom phoned me telling me her keyboard was broken. Took me a while to diagnose that she was trying to enter letters into the pin-field and it gave no indication that you weren't supposed to do that, it just didn't input any characters.

Also turns out the Windows account metaphor has gotten really confusing since they introduced microsoft accounts that are both local and online but don't necessarily share the same characteristics and now you have like 3 different passwords for the single "account" concept.
Or -- I bet a lot more likely -- the handwashing etc. prescriptions that turned out to be pretty meaningless for COVID but that are important to the transmission of flu and many other diseases.

Obviously personal action is harder to reproduce than government-sponsored trucks, so it's less useful if it was a main cause.
And it's a trade-off that the Linux maintainers have now justifiably called them to task on for making the trade-off in a way that pushed the cost onto external parties.
> Why can’t Linux keep track of parent-child relationships and visualize them when you look at running processes?

Linux does keep track of parent-child process relationships. Linux, however, is just a kernel. It's not your operating system and it's definitely not your GUI.

I suggest you look at something like `htop`.
Espressif chips are excellent for making projects that work well, but it's a bit harder to recommend them for education.

It's tough to get truly "bare metal" code running on their chips once you want to dig more deeply into how things work. Everything is based around their development framework, which is open-source and quite easy to use, but somewhat difficult to read.

Part of why people like the Arduino ecosystem is that it supports a wide variety of platforms, many of which have excellent documentation and register-level example code.

But at the end of the day, the best way to learn about microcontrollers is to grab the first one you can find and treat it like a toy. Have fun!
The test detects "viral material" and "does not indicate that the virus is fully intact and infectious, i.e. able to cause infection in other people."

The fraud is not in the test itself, but in the reporting of test results. When a PCR test comes back positive, more often than not it is assumed the patient is infected with COVID (which may not be the case) - and cases of infected people are reported widely using these PCR test results.
Strathern’s generalization of Goodhart’s Law at work.

Once a measure becomes a target it ceases to function as a good measure.
A lot of flight prices are calculated upon a search query and only guaranteed for that query (and for a set number of minutes). There generally isn't just some sort of table you can look into and get prices unfortunately.

The company I work at provides these sorts of search interfaces to airlines, but all the pricing data we show has to be estimates based on confirmed prices in the past. If you're directly on an airline website (not Google Flights, Kayak, etc) and see a calendar or something that lets you view 60 days of prices or more at once, there's a good chance that was developed by one of our teams. Unfortunately we can't totally guarantee you those prices, and we'll do things like not render those components if our estimate confidence isn't high enough.

Getting a "real" price for a flight is not a particularly fast API call, and also costs the airlines a small amount of money from the provider (almost no airline directly generates their own prices, generally another company does). Fractions of a penny per call, but that really adds up if you just give free bulk direct access to that to customers.
> unless it became something no less of a public outcry.

This is the problem with massive, powerful, unaccountable organizations. They can only be influenced by mass outrage, and mass outrage is so exhausting for everyone and ineffective except in a very limited number of cases. Getting an equitable deal shouldn't have to involve the whole of humanity every single time.
I'm blessed. But the idea of civilizational progress is to get everyone at that level, as a baseline.
The whole idea of habits, habit tracking, etc. has become this weird productivity growth hacking abomination.

That said, the second half of this article is interesting and has useful ideas - I just find the opening few sentences asserting everything in our life is a result of habits to be rather absurd. I wouldn't buy the book.
True but if someone would pay you 200k to develop rust things wouldn’t you say yes?
I really doubt that. The value of premium real estate is that it's limited and it takes a lot of wealth and time to build - it's the real proof of work so to speak. NFTs are infinite, similar to grains of sand, where each one is unique.
Just like how every environmentalist love the oil and gas companies because they are offsetting their carbon emissions
Batteries are not a great idea.

E.g. an electric car should use alcohol fuel and a small generator rather than fancy batteries.

You can grow sugar crops, convert them to fuel (reclaiming the non-fuel parts), and then use that to power your infrastructure. It's carbon-neutral, environmentally sound (waaaaaaay more than batteries), and you can do it today. No sea mines required.

The only downside is that you have to live within your solar power budget, but we have to do that anyway to counter global warming (until cheap fusion becomes a thing.)

Here's a video of Václav Smil at Driva Climate Investment Meeting 2019 giving a talk called "Investing in a changing climate – what we can learn from historic energy transitions". https://youtu.be/gkj_91IJVBk The presentation is IMO very interesting, and the conclusion is sobering: "Only absolute cuts in energy use would work." ( https://youtu.be/gkj_91IJVBk?t=2283 )

We are going to have to use less energy. We don't have to endure lower QoL but we do have to achieve our Quality of Life more efficiently.
The malware contains some hardcoded domains:

news.thaprior.net
blog.eduelects.com
cdn.mirror-codes.net
status.sublineover.net

Just out of curiosity I did a simple search and found no mention of any of those domains, except for status.sublineover.net which is being reported here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shargon/Fwhibbit/master/To...

Which is stored on a 4 years old project by what seems to be a ethical hackers group:

https://github.com/shargon/Fwhibbit

(possibly related to: https://fwhibbit.es )
This is interesting, but no word on the web site about the news sources.

And, for any "free" service to stay in business, we need to know the source of revenue, if possible.
Used nuclear fuel can be recycled by 95%, try to beat that.
It's strange to call this an "alternative explanation", since it's the one that expert infectious disease researchers, nearly without exception, are pointing to.

The (let's face it, silly) notion that masks and distancing suppressed all respiratory pathogens except one is a theory with very little traction, and which will almost certainly not stand up to serious scrutiny.
The Facebook Member director's letter linked there is also very interesting:

https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-04-29-introducin...
> But why is it less transmissible? One obvious explanation is because we've lived with it all our lives

Haven't we lived with different types of coronaviruses all of our lives as well, though? It seems at least equally as plausible that COVID is more transmissible due to actual physical qualities of the virus with respect to replication rate, particle size, and other factors that cause more virus to be expelled from the body in different ways. It could be that the flu is more transmissible by fomites than through aerosols, or that less flu virus tends to be expelled by the body, or that the flu virus has a more difficult time in infecting our cells compared to SARS-CoV2.

Of course, this is pure speculation on my part, but from what I can tell we lack data for anyone to be drawing any firm conclusions on this point.
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Heroku (and pretty much every PaaS) has features like this built in, and they tend to work really well... assuming you're using Heroku.

If you're using a PaaS that offers this, you (99.9% of the time) shouldn't look elsewhere. Just use their offering.

If you're not using an explicit PaaS, rebuilding this functionality yourself can end up being a never-ending rabbit hole.
Maybe, just maybe, if other people don't like being treated the way you'd like to be treated, the problem is your perception of yourself and your empathy.
See also: ad-free smart TV for elders - https://m.habr.com/ru/post/511060/
I don't think it's right to argue that the internet creates pedophiles.

After all, that largest known organization tied to sexual exploitation of children is.... the catholic church. And the abuse scandal goes back much farther than even the invention of the internet itself.

So we can't heap the blame on the internet. If anything, the internet is bringing these issues to light, when before they were shrouded in secrecy. Consider the alternative interpretation of the NYT report.

If only 3000 images were reported in 1998, but there were still thousands of cases in the US alone, then the internet has actually made it easier to investigate and find the criminals.
I totally agree this is a very balanced review of the affair.

The fact that "kernel maintainers ... are overworked and do not have the time to properly review every patch that passes through their hands" is not a situation created by the group of researchers.

If the Linux kernel is so crucial to the real world industry, and the kernel team is so distressed at their work, this is a problem need to be seriously addressed. Proactively punish the whole UMN does nothing to address the real issue here.

If the team is so distressed at this tremendously important work and they constantly feel they are on the edge of collapsing, may be you really really really should ask for outside help and even demand more contributions from the big techs.

Nobody should overwork, especially those work on something so crucial to the whole industry.

Edit: I just read a line from the Rust Foundation page [1]: "Good software is built by happy, well-supported people."

1. https://foundation.rust-lang.org/
I was on my phone (materialistic app) so even a wikipedia search is difficult :) I hate using the web on a mobile, it feels like I'm looking through a toilet roll.

But I mentioned it was an assumption... The parent poster mentioned that the ascent stage was carried into TEI so I assumed that was true.
Common Expression Language (CEL); lightweight expression evaluation
In the extreme case the municipality will rent it out for you.
This almost never happens. It's really not hard to find people in the city who want to rent apartments.
> the other three (1, 2, 3) contained real bugs. None of those three were accepted by maintainers, though the reasons for rejection were not always the bugs in question.

Wait, so none of the maintainers were actually fooled by these hypocrite commits? In 2/3 the maintainers explicitly caught the use-after-free bug on their own, and in the third they had some unrelated feedback. Maybe I mis-read their paper, but they made it sound like if they hadn't told the maintainers "wait, don't merge this, it's bad" they would have introduced vulnerabilities into the kernel. But that isn't what happened at all!

Again, maybe I mis-read the paper, but it seems like we can add dishonesty, if not outright fraud, to the list of problems with these researchers.
“It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission”, huh?
Have you any proof? By the same justification, I could claim that you're a competitor, and trying to make things difficult for OP. Say you're not? Well, you are.
What's the lesson here? Yes this is a simple UI, but if put next to an iPhone which one will a billion+ people pick?
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