skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could make it optional ?

Mozilla does it . Nobody is forking Firefox over just that, I don't think everyone is against it.

If it opt out and part of the install process and uses know what kind of data will be used it should be fine.

Audacity seems a exception here. They are broadly following this kind of rules , however there is blowback which other projects don't seem to be getting. Perhaps there are underlying issues in the community ?
Just because they’re aliens doesn’t mean they haven’t read FAA regs.
> > The internet needs Javascript

> No it doesn't.

Do you prefer the web from 1995? No youtube, no github, no google docs, no google maps, no real-time in-browser messengers/chats, no hangouts/google_meet/jitsi, etc. etc.?
> Evengreen, the company

Just to avoid any possible confusion over that typo, you meant Evergreen, of course.
It's only common in certain bubbles. Someone who primarily uses FOSS could easily say this. Someone who prefers software created in the era before online telemetry was widespread could also say this.
This argument is a red herring. Tesla is a decade or more away from full self driving with nobody in the driver’s seat. Other vehicles doing autonomy today (e.g. Waymo) are clearly marked (and sport easily visible LIDAR, no less).
It looks that you are assuming that all these reports have a common cause.

It is the same kind of fallacy that causes people to believe that because something was observed somewhere and something similar was observed very soon after that but 60 miles away, that it must have been an object that moved at a very high speed.
If you didn't find the following podcast episode earlier during this Suez story, now I might give the tip.

It's about the "Great Bitter Lake Association" from the 99% invisible podcast [1], about several ships and crews who got stuck in the Suez in the 1960s.

[1]: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/great-bitter-lake-ass...
> Disconnect untrusted computers from the internet.

Disconnect billions of devices? How would you even enforce this?

> I would be willing to bet any amount of money that just disconnecting all Windows computers from the internet, i.e., no direct connection, would result in a dramatic drop in security problems.

Not really sure I understand your point here. Why stop at just Windows? If we remove all computers from the internet we would be so much more secure.

I'm also not sure why you single out Windows when even the blog post demonstrates this key logger in Linux (which is open source).

> There was a time when not all computers had unfettered direct access to the internet. They worked just fine. Maybe even better than ones today that are incessantly trying to connect to some server.

I hope this is a troll rather than someone honestly believing such a statement. You're claiming disconnected computers are perhaps better... while writing on one connected to the internet.
Yeah I think this is the most credible explanation. Especially when the under secretary himself "leaked" the stuffs. Those people never do these kinds of things without a political objective. Those people are political animals.
Fears arise that Lambda Covid-19 variant from Peru may be resistant to vaccines
From my point of view VLA belongs to a class of features (along with, for example, setjump/longjump) that are best not mentioned to novice developers.

Standards aimed at security/reliability (for example MISRA) outright ban using these as they are just not worth the risk.

I have never actually needed VLAs in all the projects I did in ANSI C and I only once used alloca to provide a buffer on a stack for a serializer, but in that case the buffer size was configured at the start of the application and I could most likely just used a buffer provided by the application.
I once wrote some production email handling code. It is amazing email works at all given how poorly so many servers and clients stick to the spec. It was really eye opening. Email is more duct tape and bailing wire than I’ve ever seen anywhere else.
Still feels to me like we should be going the other way - kick more and more things off of the motherboard and support them with discrete - potentially customized - processors of their own.

Between io_uring and current or future facilities of eBPF, we have a lot of tools on deck for pipelining IO operations, and once you have a way to pipeline IO operations, the latency is not the only bottleneck. Then it’s a matter of how much bandwidth you can push between two processes, or processors.
I guess when "gun violence" is low enough, then "knife crime" becomes the new "gun violence".
I haven't seen any data on how effective this is, or if it would be more effective than wound packing. I'd be very surprised if it worked any better for abdominal wounds (it has the same problem... there is nothing to compress against, and the abdomen can just keep expanding and organs can shift out of the way).

I would also be suspicious of any "net" time-to-deploy improvements. Z-Fold gauze is small and light enough that it lives in the trauma bag, and I will definitely have it with me upon arrival to a stabbing patient. Given the relative rarity of stab wound where this would be useful (even simply as a percentage of all stab wounds), I think it's likely it wouldn't be grabbed by default, which means a trip back to the rig to get it.

Obviously, take my opinion with a grain of salt... All the info I have about this is from this single article, and EMS is notoriously suspicious of change and "new shiny".
For these publishers, that's a welcome side effect. Having a small number of private companies control access to what should be communal resources, solely to enrich themselves and their shareholders, is not how this should work at all.

Also, many users of Sci-Hub would not be able to afford the publishers' access fees anyway. The alternative, if Sci-Hub is destroyed, isn't the publishers getting loads more cash rolling in, it's such users not being able to access these research papers at all.
Maybe it's some secret development plan started in the 80s and finally something good began to come out during the early 2000s. We might be able to see a prototype in the next decade.
i'd assume they're in for lulz and to give a new meaning to an old meme
Most of the studies and wargames have shown that invading Taiwan will be incredibly difficult. If Taiwan chooses to fight, they will be able to inflict serious casualties on PLA/PLAN forces. China's best plan is to slowly increase ties with Taiwan over time. But they don't seem to have the necessary patience (witness Hong Kong). From a military perspective, they could do a blockade, and I doubt the US or others would seriously try to break such a blockade.
It would be very much like Normandy in the sense that there are only a few beaches and ports where amphibious assaults could even be attempted, there are significant shore defenses which can't be eliminated by air / missile strikes, and the weather window is only open for a few months per year.
Not OP, but I like it! The piano roll interface is it's biggest weakness, but everything else is great IMO. My favorite feature is the mixer panel and effects stack interface. The mixer panel is a happy medium between powerful ("I want to experiment with some ridiculous side-chaining setup") and the simple / immediate ("I just want to soften up the sound with some reverb"), and can do both well in my opinion.

If you're thinking of using it on Linux, I'd recommend using something like KXStudio. (Sadly the distro version of that is no longer maintained, otherwise I'd recommend that.)
Get the therapy you need to figure out how to be content and happy. It's the best investment you could ever make - investing in yourself.

All we can do here is give suggestions that might provide you some distractions from the root issues for awhile.
Wow, glad to hear I'm not the only one. People think I'm crazy and don't know how I can concentrate, but when I really need to focus and get some programming done quickly I throw on some speed metal and just cruise.
Intuitively, we feel that larger solution spaces should make a problem harder because there are more possible solutions to consider. And of course this is true if exhaustive search is the only algorithm.

But CS is full of problems where the smaller space is NP-hard and the larger one isn't. Integer linear programming is a prominent example.

To resolve the intuition, we can think of the larger space as an "unconstrained" problem where the solution space is somehow natural and nice for the problem. From this perspective, the smaller space looks like an added constraint. Adding constraints usually makes problems harder.
It's a pretty bulky device, and space is at a premium on an ambulance.

The intended use case is for the police to carry this, not ambulances:

He said it was key for the first people to a stabbing, which is often the police, to stop excessive blood loss while they wait for paramedics to arrive.

So maybe the debate people are having about this detail is a moot point?
Look into Bazel. Bazel particularly suited to building Python+{C/C++/Rust} codebases.

It's still early days in the Bazel ecosystem, so you won't find a ready-made solution, but the fundamentals are solid.
>Exemptions can be made. Low-income countries .. those that have strong domestic climate ambitions, etc, can all be used as defining attributes to warrant exclusion from a border adjustment.

translation, exclude china and most other "developing" nations while increasing the Tax on "rich" nations, a tax that is regressive in nature and will impact the poor people living in "rich" nations the most...
If you tax gasoline to $1,000/gallon (and other emissions to the same price per CO2e) it doesn't matter if the money gets spent on carbon offsets or not, the deterrent effect would dwarf the removal effect. Revenue-neutral tax+dividend programs like the one described in TFA seem far more politically viable than tax+spend alternatives.
For some reason, I can't interpret your comment in any other way than security-paranoia FUD that's advocating for completely-locked-down user-hostile computers (or maybe I should say "devices"...) under the total control of Big Tech, because that's the narrative they've been using more and more to justify it.
I don't have a workload I'd prefer to see on 2x128-core: We're already microservices running across a pool of instances, and would prefer a bigger pool of faster instances than a smaller pool of slower ones at the same cost. Once we get a workload running on 100+ cores, I often see a lot of lock contention anyway. Going bigger usually makes that worse (worse ROI).

As for datacenter size/cost, it's a good point, but what if two 1-Socket servers could take up the same space as one 2-Socket server? :-) That may never happen, but some level of space optimization will, so it's not a simple doubling of size. E.g., Facebook's work in the OCP with 1-socket sleds (or blades):

https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-yosemite-v3-platfo...
You should read Alex Hutchinson. He has two great books backed up by science and studies that will show you why your thinking is wrong.

https://www.amazon.com/Which-Comes-First-Cardio-Weights/dp/B...

https://www.amazon.com/Endure-Curiously-Elastic-Limits-Perfo...

It's all in your head. Your brain is controlling your endurance not your genetics, what you need to do is train your brain like a professional athlete does to increase performance. Read the books , it will educate you in all things exercise and performance.
> Nobody is actually smarter or better than anyone at anything.. <snip> That's the underlying message about ML initiatives that touch sensitive topics.

No it's not, and if you think that you are misreading it.

The general point of ML ethics is that a machine learning system should not reinforce bias caused by historically biased training data. This is good statistical practice, but unfortunately often gets lost in the "magic AI" bubble.

Avoiding this is like saying "a salary of $110K/year makes you a rich person". It's sort of based on something true (it does put you in the the top quartile of US earners), but is completely useless without correcting at least for location and number of dependants.

That's what ML Ethics is about.

> I've seen smart tech people unable to say that men are on average taller than women because (I believe) they were afraid to say that some "favorable" outcome (tall) was a result of some component that could be genetic.

So you've taken that dumb argument and said all ML ethics arguments are the same?
The Endless Conundrum of creating a secure PinePhone
are Manning books any better these days? They always used to rush the most awful poorly edited and planned content to market to be the first ones with a book on $NewTechnology
Most restaurants have no idea what s3 is, much less how to use it.
How did Audacity gain it's popularity over the past 15 years, without any of this stuff?

Did you use computers 15 years ago? Linux desktop and open source tools? Nothing had this crap back then, and some of it was pretty good. Audacity itself is an example!

Open source software is not a commercial product. You don't need to prioritize and optimize for engagement or market share or any such crap. Just fix what you want, fix what you can, interested capable users will contribute attempted fixes for their own problems and you incorporate them if they make sense to the project.

I don't think telemetry has ever resulted in good software, it just pushes everything towards being an iPad with one button on it. Only skilled tasteful developers make good software, and that was true long before telemetry existed.
The long history of 'Bombay time' and resistance to colonial rule
Right, I think there's a bit of subtlety lost here. "Squash and merge to trunk" is very different from "rebase on every pull on a feature branch" which is very different from "rebase and fixup/squash before merging to trunk" etc.

On a feature branch, whether you constantly rebase against master or merge from master probably should depend on the nature of the feature branch and what exactly has been happening on master. And it ultimately doesn't matter that much.

In my experience, as long as branches are ultimately merged to master with --no-ff, you can almost always recover a sensible commit history, and you should almost always end up with a sensible, tidy master to base new branches off of. If you rebase with squash/fixup on the feature branch before merging, all the better, because then you get nice "meaningful" commits on the feature branch. But even if that doesn't happen and the feature branch is a mess, at least you could write a meaningful merge commit message.

Maybe things get hairy with huge teams or huge projects that could necessitate a different workflow. But most developers are not working on projects like that.
Half of those aren't really needed and are better server by native apps anyway.

However the Internet isn't the Web, so certainly the Internet doesn't need Javascript.

Also neither does the web, but for sites that can provide functionality which wouldn't be possible without javascript it can be a nice optional feature. Though all of the examples you gave either do not need javascript (youtube, github) or are better as native apps (google docs, google maps, IMs).
Buying offsets isn't the point of carbon pricing. There aren't nearly enough available offsets to reach net zero.
It even seems Audacity is asking for permission based on this screenshot: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
1) Speakers of Chinese are definitely not as equally distributed among global places with the need to access that knowledge as speakers of English.

2) Even if they were as equally distributed, you'd still be wrong about the number of speakers.
Both Vue and React have amazing Chinese language resources; I've been very lucky that my coworkers are fluent!
If you're into OCaml, French is a very handy language to know in my experience
Wow, I was crazily into X-Files back in early 2000s (was in another country so didn't hear about it until then) and watched pretty much every episode many times.

I think Episode 4~6 are the pinnacle of the series, but the rest are not bad. How old is your kid?
>I have no horse in this race, but wouldn't it be better to keep crash reports in there?

Audacity has been around for 21 years, has generated a strong following from a wide range of users, and is one of the most widely-loved FOSS projects. It achieved said status without telemetry for 21 years.

People keep saying the telemetry thing is "overblown", but there is clearly a large number of us who simply don't want it. It doesn't need it, and the past 21 years have demonstrated that.
Downloads are an incredibly non-useful statistic. Appreciate your disinterest in providing information but it’s disingenuous to say this is a worthwhile piece of data.
But it does ask: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
Zrhythm looks great, I think I'll switch to this !
Go ahead, quit. Do a variety of volunteer work during your time off to justify it. You might find it very beneficial too.
Legally I believe that’s the person who uploaded the code’s infringement rather than GitHub’s, so long as GitHub deals with takedown requests in a timely manner as per the DMCA.

Furthermore, as described in the article, the legal precedent has been that you don’t actually need copyright to something to train a model on it. You may think that’s silly or inconsistent, but that’s how the legal precedent is.
I think it depends on your drive. I started a new role as a junior right when covid started - was in the office for maybe one week (not exaggerating), then all remote. I was later laid off (also due to covid), but found a new role at a smaller firm - still as junior, still remote - and made my way to a much more senior position in under a year. If you are confident in your skills and abilities and actually try, I think the opportunities are much much better than when we were all in the office. I found I was able to make way more progress working remotely than I ever was in the office. I also don't have children or many distractions at home, so take that as you will. It really just depends on you.
> I have seen plenty of people on HN arguing for censorship of unflattering statistics to achieve social justice goals.

I've never seen this. Can you link some examples?
She was given a speaking position in many events and fora, including the UN, where, correct me if my memory is weak, no other environmental activist has set foot. She has rich parents who sponsored and organized her "career". Something does not smell right here. Someone is taking advantage of her to let the steam about the environment out, by concentrating all the spotlight on that regard to a little girl who speaks big and innocently, but ultimately failing to point fingers to the people responsible - undirected shaming has been proven to have no effect anywhere ever. That someone might as well be her own parents who let her live the dream and maybe make some money out of the situation while she's at it - ASP together with her age maybe does play a role here as Greta herself is unable to understand what role she may be actually playing, taking the social "mission" given to her seriously and at face value. In time, the world's biggest climate change advocate will be a little girl that briefly made headlines, elegantly kept in check by the ones who brought her up to speak in the first place. And the rest will be given no attention - and no one will notice, if we want to learn how things are going we got Greta, after all!
China was afraid of Trump going to war not so much with Biden so this makes perfect sense. We will see Iran, Russia and North Korea threaten more while European countries offering more support.
That is compatible with my predictions.
It looks like their rack mounted 2U sized device does up to 1900 dense matrix mps.

Would you happen to know how that would compare to a typical (I guess mid-range) server for AI? I'd like to get a sense of the magnitude of improvement offered.
Over 150 People fatally shot in more than 400 shootings over 4th July weekend
Autopilot lulls drivers into a state of incompetence. This is an involuntary physiological response that humans cannot control. It’s like giving alcohol to the driver, where Tesla is the bartender.
Though your intuition is correct: the amount of English speakers outnumbers that of Mandarin, but Mandarin significantly outnumbers English in terms of native-language speakers
Concrete is totally avoidable, but the Portland Cement lobby won't yield to geopolymers or Chinese CAC members despite reminder after reminder (like last week in Florida) that portland cement + rebar is temporary at best.
Ask HN: Solution to follow breaking news without browsing
I waste multiple hours each day on Reddit and HN. My solution to this is that I sign up for Sunday morning digests that give me the top 20 posts from the past week. I’d like to stay up to date with current important events (stuff like the evergiven ship, COVID status updates, major scandals, etc) without wasting time reading fluff. If I download a typical news aggregator app like Google News, I know that it will simply become the scrolling habit that Reddit and HN were. Can anyone think of any solutions for this? I’d be willing to pay a subscription.
> while writing on one connected to the internet.

I think you’re missing part of their point (which isn’t super clear). You can still surf on such a computer, by going through an http proxy on the same LAN (the “gateway” they’re talking about, or bastion host)

They could very much be writing that comment on such a machine.
> The market has spoken

This is funny because usually whenever i see that mentioned to excuse negative behavior it isn't really about the market speaking but about the market staying silent :-P
I guess the question is - is online telemetry and crash reporting reasonable considered and expected to "it's stuff" for an offline audio editing program?

And if so, how far down that slope is it reasonable to go before trying to claim that crypto-mining is also an essential part of off line audio editing software?
I’ve always liked Manning…the one I can’t stand is Packt…
That page was so generic that I could fully believe it was originally written by a GPT bot.
Lots of people do complain about Firefox telemetry.
Though is that not already the case wrt. English?
It's nice, but I suspect more an educational tool than a working programmer's tool. Rustc has good lifetime diagnostics, so it's not that huge a problem.

What I'd like to see is something that does static analysis for reference-counted items. To access a reference-counted item, you often have to call .borrow(), which checks to see if someone else already has it borrowed. This panics on a conflict. That's a good problem for static analysis - is the .borrow() always safe, always going to fail, or unknown? Much of the time, it's always safe and could be optimized out.
It seems that every time someone invents a new hammer, people use it to solve every problem, whether it's the right tool for the job or not. When viewed through the lens of hindsight, the advertisements are quite amusing.

In the 1890's it was "electricity." In the 1920's it was "radio." In the 1940's it was "radar." In the 1950's it was "atomic" everything. In the 1960's it as "space" this and "space" that. In the 1970's it was "jet." In the 1990's it was "cyber." Today, it's "blockchain" and "AI."

Some of it works. Most of it is snake oil. But people keep buying based on trendy keywords. People are just built that way.