skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But that doesn’t mean you can get away from the fact that if we did not do anything, if we let this virus to run, we would be back in a very serious situation that would threaten many lives and threaten the NHS.
Guess my post needed sarcasm tags because it seems you're attempting to refute my point, which was that America only says it values work. But as famously pointed out by Warren Buffet that his secretary pays more in tax than he does[0], it is obvious what America really values: asset holders, not workers.

[0] Buffet's secretary pays a higher rate on earned income than Buffet does on capital gains.
Did you read the LWN article and the TAB statement?

> The writing of a paper on this research [PDF] was not the immediate cause of the recent events; instead, it was the posting of a buggy patch originating from an experimental static-analysis tool run by another developer at UMN. That led developers in the kernel community to suspect that the effort to submit intentionally malicious patches was still ongoing. Since then, it has become apparent that this is not the case, but by the time the full story became clear, the discussion was already running at full speed.

and

> The LF Technical Advisory Board is taking a look at the history of UMN's contributions and their associated research projects. At present, it seems the vast majority of patches have been in good faith, but we're continuing to review the work. Several public conversations have already started around our expectations of contributors.

The recent shit storm was not caused by a malicious act on the part of anybody at UMN. The "overworked" maintainers made a mistake and ascribed malice to the actions of a good-faith contributor who also happened to be from UMN.

I still see people in this thread assuming that UMN has some history of submitting malicious patches and the wholesale ban is a justifiable response. That response might be justified if some internal ethical system at UMN is broken, but that is not the case, at least here. This history is clean save the one incident regarding the research paper, which has been withdrawn.
Could you provide some examples where that this was the case?
> avoid seeing what is obvious.

Can you explain what is obvious? You seem to allude to something, but I'm not sure what that is.
So I was right?
That's a bit of a clickbait title. But we do tend to underestimate and understate the negative effect of something "small" like a two second loss of time - even when it is repeated a hundred billion times.

From a way-too-literally utilitarian perspective, given that we're talking thousands of life-years here, the loss of potential productive or rewarding time wasted to automatically clicking on these disclaimers is in the same league as murdering hundreds of people. Now, I can't that too seriously. But maybe there is a nugget of wisdom about the seriousness of the harm in seemingly trivial losses, when they are multiplied across entire civilizations? Or maybe I just take UI design way too seriously.
> 42 [UMN] patches [out of the 190 listed by Greg Kroah-Hartman] are still set to be pulled out of the kernel... some of the patches contained serious errors; these definitely needed to be reverted (and should not have been accepted in the first place).... all of those [42] patches were accepted by subsystem maintainers throughout the kernel, which is not a great result. Perhaps that is a more interesting outcome than the one that the original "hypocrite commit" researchers were looking for. They failed in their effort to deliberately insert bugs, but were able to inadvertently add dozens of them.
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I also saw him as Crystal Distortion back in the mid-00s at Uglyfunk and as himself in the early 10s, so that's only one more time than you :)

I'm a big fan of Detroit ghetto-tech like DJ Godfather, and have a similar problem of it only existing on the other side of the Atlantic... The weekender I mentioned has had at least one of the top DJs over every other year or so over the last decade which is amazing, because otherwise I've been out to see it played three times in the past two decades, so I feel your pain :)
Which province was this? Here in Alberta we did twice as many tests as the year before.

https://www.660citynews.com/2021/04/13/zero-cases-of-seasona...
It doesn’t. See below
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I think the more appropriate analogy is not bitcoin, but underlying crypto technologies. Should stop researching crypto (or should we repudiate past crypto research) because it might result in new mining technologies? I think the answer to that is clearly no. But that's precisely the issue with these very general technologies: they enable a broad set of use cases that includes things you might not have thought about.
I came across:

https://www.freightercruises.com/voyages.php

https://www.freightertrips.com

https://www.langsamreisen.de/en/freightertravel/

http://www.seaplus.com/mainmenu.php

https://juddspittler.com/freighterbum/faq.htm
There's something unexpected about this aspect of veganism, which is often embraced by those wanting to lead a healthier lifestyle, resulting in the development of more and more advanced food processing technologies designed to synthesize the experience of foods being excluded from the diet.

Basically, in the quest to return to a more healthy, natural diet, some folks end up moving to foods that are more and more processed.

That's not meant to be a criticism! In my mind it's just a bit of a surprising outcome and makes me wonder how folks who consume these products square that circle in their minds.
You forgot the part where you explain <why>/point out/link to examples of things that lie beyond its scope.
the rule is that the person ahead in the photo is the winner. doesn't matter if the photo is wrong.
You are confused about the kernel vs. userland.
I see this spectacle as punishing the UMN IRB which has demonstrated an inability to prevent issues like this occurring in the future.

If any readers have not learned that the trick to inter-organizational progress is to get the right questions into the right ears, now is a good time to look at that concept. You can tell your own people until you're blue in the face that the customer has a very expensive XY problem, or you can buddy up to one of their engineers and have them ask their management chain for Y, at which point the seas part and you have budget to solve the problem correctly.

The IRB's bosses need to be audited, and as far as I'm aware the IRB hasn't volunteered that it was part of this dustup and promised to do anything about it. Which means someone has to make them do it. Which means their boss needs to care. I don't know how universities are organized, but I'm betting that the president/chancellor of the school has hire/fire control over that group. And if not them, then the board. How do you get the board's attention?

More importantly, if I'm a Gatech student and I don't think my university is being ethical about open source, I can make them care by pointing out how UMN got exiled for doing the same sorts of things we are suggesting doing. If UMN just gets a finger wave they'll just shrug and wait for theirs.
A better question is what would they want. Mom and pop store owners are not sophisticated generally, so even a very useful app could easily be overlooked.

Whatever it does it has to be cheap. Cheap cheap. And easy.

Different kinds of mom and pop stores probably need significantly different apps.
That was fixed in 2019. Apparently the default hardwrapping was inherited from pico, which was for composing email.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55067
As someone who has jailbroken almost every iPhone I've owned I am very familiar with whole categories of apps that can't be distributed through the App Store. That said, how do you handle the FB's of the world or other bad actors who will (ab)use private API's if they no longer have to follow Apple's rules?

I could see Apple offering a new entitlement for payment processing, maybe with defined endpoints for canceling/managing subscriptions but 3rd party app stores open a whole can of worms. Can Apple lock down their private API's? Maybe, but I feel that will lead to a cat and mouse game where apps have lots of code testing to see what they can reach out and access on the OS version they are installed on. Sure, the FB through the official App Store won't be doing that but the FB distributed through Facebook's own App Store will. We've already seen what FB will do when given unchecked ability to distribute apps (see Onavo, FB's VPN to spy on users). Do you really think that end users will care that they installed an app through a seedy 3rd party app store? No, they will blame Apple if their data is stolen/privacy invaded.

I can already see the "promos" apps like FB or scummy games will run to get you to install them via some app store which isn't vetting the apps. "300 free coins if you install via AppStorez".
Not wearing masks is a hill many people have chosen to literally die on, so while I hope that there is a culture change, I expect that anyone wearing masks after the pandemic is over will be demonized.
The first, "alternative explanation" the statistician in me wants to mention is perhaps the way influenza data is gathered has changed.

"Only people who get tested for influenzalike illnesses—typically about 5 percent of individuals who fall ill—are tallied."

If there were a change in the way these tests were administered, for example a blaring medical bias toward another disease, that would present a significant sampling problem. That same statistician also wanted me to mention the simplest and most boring answers are usually closest to the truth.
Relational databases as introduced by Codd AFAIK are pretty much just storages for Prolog's fact statements: they map exactly one-to-one. The underlying data structures used for implementation (B-trees etc.) may or may not be optimal for the Prolog-style queries, of course.
Wouldn't the ram be idling most of the time while farming? Only storage space matters for farming, speed doesn't.
Actually the supervisor was directly involved in this. I think it's much more the high pressure publish or perish culture, possibly coupled with the pressures of tenure-track hiring (I'm not entirely sure if the supervisor was already tenured).
Yeah I don't think a cost breakdown on my drop ship products on Etsy would increase sales. We roughly double the price vs. cost of goods, but it's not like we're rolling in dough because at our volume fixed expenses take up a really significant amount of our profit.
There is literally an entire industrial complex setup to fight the flu on an annual basis, including massive testing & tracking. This is how we have data on annual flu infections. If anything, this year would have been an excellent year to find more flu infections as many people who got sick didn't simply stay home and get over the illness, they went & got tested.
Combination between efforts to avoid COVID and viral interference of those who were exposed would drastically reduce the ability to spread. Could it perhaps have reduced it enough to have stopped a flu season from developing?
what is the performance like for a database server that's separated from your host like that?

It's not separated. As this diagram shows - https://mtlynch.io/litestream/diagram.jpg - the SQLite database is on the same server as the web application. Additionally, OP's setup seems to use Litestream to backup the SQLite database to some cloud storage.
IIRC Flightfox was originally a market where you posted your desired itinerary and constraints and a price, and some travel points nerd could offer you a convoluted routing would meet those constraints for (this is why I ended up booking Star Alliance flights for years through a Colombian carrier's site). It was really helpful for me to spend ~$40 rather than try to learn the collective wisdom of FlyerTalk forums. I think they later pivoted to some more automated system where they'd try to sell the flights directly - I hadn't realized that they were in corporate travel management now.
Here's the story of how its name came to be: https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136691523104280576
I didn’t see code velocity, which is a good stat to use for teams. I haven’t tried it but this repo seems interesting on a similar note:

https://github.com/jph98/github-pr-stats
Researchers attempt charging electric vehicles wirelessly on road
>WebM Support

WebKit added improved support for WebM media. With Safari 14, WebKit added support for WebM via MSE on iPadOS and macOS. Now, WebKit on macOS supports WebM files containing VP8 or VP9 video tracks and Vorbis audio tracks. Developers can now offer WebM content to users, though users will enjoy the best quality and power efficiency with h.264 or HEVC.

No iOS, and the mention of power efficiency at the end I assume that means VP9 will be software decoded?

Edit: Still no VP9 showing up on Youtube. Although I am OK with 1080P AVC encode.
This book was one of the best parts of my CS degree. It's the only textbook which I read cover-to-cover because the writing and narrative were so cohesive. Highly recommend.
I see thank you for the clarification.
With the last four you can probably unfreeze someones credit too - and then hilarity can ensue.

Our financial and business systems are such a house of cards; it’s ridiculous identity and account management is such a utter disaster.
Switching to vim because you don't want to press ^L (or set the respective configuration option in .nanorc) to toggle off hardwrapping is a bit overkill though ...

It's not like "out of the box" vim is different in this regard. Half the time spent by a typical vim user with vim is coming up with personalised configurations.

Surely if I said I'm ditching vim for nano because I wanted columns hardwrapped at 80 characters by default you'd look at me funny, right? xD
What does it take to transform a place?
The more cooperative relationship in Europe was the result of the labour movement largely winning, in the sense of gaining sufficient political power that the balance of legal protections shifted to a point where the struggles even when heated are generally much less of an existential crisis.

Keep in mind that for many decades, especially from the 1840's onwards, much of Europe was a total powder-key with countries facing revolutions left right and centre, and the political landscape changing rapidly to accommodate this. E.g. Bismarcks massive healthcare and pension reforms in the 1880's were inexorably linked to his fear of revolution. To take another example, in 1923 the Norwegian right wing were absolutely horrified when - after they failed to negotiate a coalition - the king appointed the Labour Party leader to the post of prime minister (at the time Labour was still a communist party); the government was voted down immediately (and the king would have known that would happen), but it still forced the other parties to realise they could not ignore the demands of the labour movement any more.

In the post-war periods the social democratic and socialist parties across Western Europe either got into power or became a substantial threat to the right in most countries, and as a result you saw sweeping welfare reforms, healthcare reforms and others across large parts of the continent.

Unions that had for decades in many cases been outright communists were moderated by the combination of starting to fear the Soviets coupled with major wins for labour rights that made them less inclined to rock the boat.

It's a whole lot easier to win support for a more cooperative approach when people saw negotiation actually working for them, and employer increasingly being willing to sit down from the start rather than employ the kind of tactics Amazon has been accused of using (I'm not taking a stance on whether or not they've done the things they've been accused of, but these kinds of things are not new in terms of US employers fighting unionisation).

US unions have remained far more militant because US employers have remained far more militant. Active use of actual violence on both sides remained prevalent much longer, for starters.

You're not going to see those hostile fronts change unless workers rights are substantially strengthened to the point that not enough people find the hardline approach worthwhile any more.
If it was me it would be because I wanted to know if I need to be extra isolated from the people I live with.
GDPR only ruined it for those who ruined the web for everyone else. The web works fine without tracking. The people who are hellbent on spying on innocent people are ruining the web.
>> It seemed to me from that same documentary that pretty much all writing systems appeared independently from spoken language: In a sense, written and spoken appeared independently, and then the Rébus principle, and then this "acrophonic principle" made the writing system, and thus "language", sort of subdued to the spoken language. Is that true?

>I must admit to being confused as to what you’re asking here. What exactly do you mean by ‘appearing independently’, and writing systems being ‘subdued to the spoken language’?

I meant that the writing system appeared at first, not as a way to "write down" spoken language, but as a language of its own (hence independent) with no relation to the already present spoken language.
By "subdued", I meant that (again, from what I understood), the Rébus principle is the first "interaction" between the spoken and written language, and the "acrophonic principle" goes a step further in a sense, so that the written language is not anymore an independent system, but a symbolic representation of the spoken language (sounds -> symbols).

This is quite counter-intuitive to me, hence my asking about it.
Love the idea, but I'll just say they dev is really missing a trick here. For the UI they should follow Zachtronics lead and go extreme skeuomorphic, lots of dragging tapes into players and connecting cords, clicking buttons.

Feel these are the details and the vibe that make Zachtronics so successful. They give you an atmosphere, aesthetic and world to be immersed into.

So instead of "Virtual tape player" windows and virtual tapes it should be like an actual tape player on the screen and people are posting you actually tapes you drag into the player and stuff along with written letters etc.
missed out here are Morgan Khan's seminal 'streetsounds' techno vinyl compilations which were very successful in the the UK. I was hanging out with Herbie Laidly and the Mastermind Roadshow in the mid eighties, they mixed a lot of that vinyl which brought Techno/electro to a much broader audience.

https://www.discogs.com/label/906-Street-Sounds

https://youtu.be/QWuAdxoiVPA
No, the rates were already known to be extremely low. It was political theater to look cautious when no pause was warranted. It cost more lives than it saved. That is greater than zero net harm and the wrong choice.
As a datapoint on Sweden, we have a normally pretty well functioning breast cancer screening system where women between 40-74 are to be offered a screening opportunity every other year.

In 2019 more than 800 000 screenings were done (with 8288 cancer cases discovered in the country that year) and this system has been credited for pushing down the yearly cancer deaths due to earlier discoveries.

In 2020 there was 160 000 less screenings so we can probably expect an increase in number of deadly cases in the coming years.

(Source, https://www.dn.se/sverige/en-av-fem-kvinnor-screenades-inte-... )
I'm vegan, and probably not. I've heard that most vegan substitutes are processed heavily so not really more healthy (and probably less healthy than non-vegan options).

However, I do still eat them on occasion. Sometimes after a 30km run, all I think about is burgers so when I get home and sit and have vegan burger with vegan cheese.

It may not be as good as the 'real thing' but it hits the spot :)
Does a Tesla with "driver assist" autopilot driven by a neuralink chimp count as fully self-driving? What if it's on Mars?
You might want to try him with a password manager.
Cue the comments from highly-skilled white collar professionals, grieving that W-2 employment is oppressive.
By "actor" I was referring to the institutionally untrustworthy UMN, but since you seem interested in splitting hairs, you should probably realize in doing so that Aditya Pakki === Aditya Pakki.

Notice that Aditya is one of the signers of the apology letter:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK8KejpUVLxmqp026JY7x5GzHU2YJL...

And that several of the identified vulnerabilities were tied to Aditya:
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/YH+zwQgBBGUJdiVK@unreal/
Thanks for sharing
I’ll definitely check it out
I mean there were vacuum tubes and relay machines before that :)

IMO relays are a bit easier to understand than transistors because it's a bit easier to understand how to implement various logic gates with them with only very basic knowledge of electronics.

Also, very satisfying clicking sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZyFSrNyhy8&t
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> Which brands have you tried?

More than I could possibly recall. Violife, chao, follow your heart, miyokos, daiya, parmellas, go veggie, kite hill, Trader Joe’s brand

> For some kinds of cheese, people actually find them indistinguishable from the classic dairy versions

Not a chance that I believe this. Maybe as a minor ingredient in a larger meal but certainly not as a main ingredient or on its own.
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> help them better manage developers.

The only way to better manage developers is to have a manager that used to be developer.

If that's impossible, the best option left would be to just trust the developers on their reports.

All of the other options that are taken (which I would say, for these traditional companies, 99% of the time) inevitably result in a mess.
> They've got a fundamentally different society

You have to say more than this.
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I am a theorist and I would say, that the bottom - as it is the foundation - is mathematical logic. And you start from there.

Baffingly enough: All this theory is easily understood with 7th-grade math.

Approaching from some specific piece of engineering is surely top-down.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files#The_Jennifer...
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I know Sapphire Reserve offers it, have to remember to renew it each year though
Also a good historical primer

Pump Up The Volume - A History of House Music - Documentary - 2001 - Channel 4 (UK)

https://youtu.be/pRRg8M4fvUo
This is something I've noticed as well. Sometimes ingredient lists are a mile long. Less so here in Europe than what I've seen in America, but nevertheless it is shockingly less natural. I have always though that it makes more sense to just create vegan foods from what you have rather than recreating the things you are choosing not to eat.

Warning though, I am not a part of the vegan club, so it is all just opinion.
And, they have a tendency to eat all of the babelfish rather than listen to them. (I can't blame them.)
I had Eurail part of one summer when I lived in Germany. I was between broke and cheap so would sleep on overnight trains, even taking them partway out of the way and then back. I think I travelled something like 23 nights and paid for 5 nights of hostels in total.
Because to propose that 30s video format (that our research has proven is easier to engage and create) we frame questions as Yes or NO. Indeed, this is not the proper format for every question.