skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree - the average person is not capable of securely managing their own data, which is why they pick a consumer brand like Apple to do it for them - providing an option to do so would likely result in significant exposure of personal data at significant scale from botched DIY attempts.

To test this theory, simply ask an average iPhone or Android user what encryption is.

What you are saying here is the equivalent to me buying a plane ticket, but also having the option to fly the plane as well.

If you want to manage your own data - use something like a PinePhone - the barrier to entry is high enough that people who are capable of managing their own data securely can use the device and achieve the data sovereignty outcome they require.

That said, I believe Apple should build and manage their own infrastructure. They have the resources and capabilities to do so. The longer Apple stick’s with GCP the larger the inertia of moving away and the less leverage they have when it comes to negotiating to maintain their high standard of privacy commitments.
If you engineered a way to do it while maintaining user privacy, it would be a service to lots of FOSS developers.

Edit: How about routing it via something people trust, such as a trusted proxy like Mozilla (if they would host such a thing) and over the Tor network (if that could be bundled easily).
Barbarians at the gate, Google and Amazon slurp it all up eventually. How's those big ones feel inside your budget, Apple.
I would argue that most software doesn't need GPU compute.
My point was that in both cases the potential for abuse exists but that users have to trust that existing policies will prevent that abuse. Why should your users trust you and not Google to follow your stated policies?
Calling it a secret is an exaggeration. It's more like an obscure topic on Wikipedia: it's publicly available to anyone who cared to ask the question.
I understand that you feel upset that they added something that you didn't want, but you don't have to continue adding to the division and cynicism. Forking is not the only move, and I would actually suggest against it -- what you want is simply a build with the telemetry disabled. I don't think you want to throw away any other new features that aren't related to the telemetry (and in fact, you may still be able to indirectly benefit from it that way if it leads to some valuable product insights from them). So characterizing this as greed seems to not make so much sense. If they were getting super rich off this and not making any other improvements then maybe you could say that, and I would join you in saying hey, something's not right here, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
It doesn't help that the maintainer is already mishandling basic stuff like naming the repo: https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/issues/33.

If the maintainer had waited out the initial flurry of attention, they probably could have chosen the name they wanted without much drama at all. Instead, they overreacted, deleted the first thread, and then immediately started editing and deleting user comments in the second. Ouch.
When the market speaks, people who insist opt-out and telemetry auto-update is necessary then insist that the market just doesn't know what's good for it. This is Audacity forking. It could fail, but I don't know that anyone has the kind of allegiance to Audacity as a project (that is recently under new ownership) to not follow the fork. The new ownership didn't buy the users, and if somebody else will take better care of the project why not go with them?

The project lead said he had no say about the telemetry and couldn't turn it down. For me, that makes is a business decision and not a technical one. This is to monetize, not to help me.
I’m not going to disagree with the author’s main point, I’m sure doing drills is very important. But I do question their personal example. When I was in high school, I played a lot of go. But then I stopped playing for a few years. When I started again, after shaking off the rust I was a much better player. And I wasn’t doing any “drills” during those years of off time. Sometimes I think we just need a fresh perspective on our hobbies. So did the author improve because sketching is a drill? Maybe even if they hadn’t done that they still would have gotten better.
> Mozilla does it . Nobody is forking Firefox over just that

Mozilla is a non-profit whose mission is promoting end-user control on the Internet, and they have a long track record. People trust Mozilla.

The owners of Audacity haven't earned that trust.
Most kernels do have a heap and they work fine for this purpose, as the article advocates. After all, they need a page allocator to respond to requests from userspace programs for dynamic allocation (unless it's an extremely embedded OS where memory is allocated to tasks at design / compile time - think Apollo Guidance Computer, not QNX). So they may as well allocate pages for their own use, if they want.

If you want string-handling on the heap, you probably also want some sort of a malloc implementation, so you can handle allocation requests that are less than one page, but that's just an algorithm that sits on top of the page allocator.

You don't want to overuse it, though. Page allocation can fail, and more interestingly, it can require blocking - maybe you're not out of memory, exactly, but you've got dirty buffers that need to be flushed to disk (or worse, to NFS). If you're handling a system call from a userspace program, blocking is probably fine. But the kernel runs in more contexts than that. One problem is that the code that handles flushing dirty buffers, and any code that it calls, cannot block; otherwise, you might deadlock, because you're trying to allocate a new page so you can finish free a page. (And in the case of NFS, that includes basically all of the socket code in the kernel.) You also don't want to block inside interrupt handlers, even if the thing the interrupt handler is doing is putting some data on a queue and letting a kernel thread pick it up. Those buffers need to be allocated in advance, or at least come from a special pool of ready-to-use pages that can always be allocated without blocking.

In a kernel that supports swap, you can choose to swap out basically anything to make more room, but that has its own deadlock problem too. Code used by any disk handler (and any filesystem, if you support swap files) cannot allocate memory that can be swapped out; otherwise you might not be able to swap that memory back in. One common approach, which Linux takes, is to say that memory allocated by the kernel simply cannot swap. But that means that you can't allocate too much inside the kernel. NT actually has a swappable kernel pool, and the infamous IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL blue screen means that a kernel driver tried to access data that was swapped out in a context where it wasn't allowed to swap.

Here's the Linux kernel's documentation on its various allocation options:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/memory-alloc...

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/mm-api.html#...
Most writing drills are about reading critically: http://www.criticalreading.com/

Look into universities and approaches from Professors:

Jordan Peterson’s writing approach is based a lot on drill: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://jordanbpeterson.co...

Umberto Eco’s "How to write a Thesis"
Let me offer a different perspective to therapy. From my experience, having access to a doctorate trained person in behavior science is akin to an advisor that a King (or Queen) would gainfully employ. For a $20 co-pays, you have access to a life advisor that would typically only be afforded by the absolute wealthiest in feudal times. Your standard of living (with your insurance) affords you nearly the same benefit that only Kings would enjoy - that's quite a jump in standard of living.

With regards to being guarded toward people you don't know,please know that therapy doesn't start this way - with a dump of your intermost secrets. It's starts with talking about everyone else in your life. Over time, report builds and this person is now a friend firmly committed to seeing you succeed.

A note on choosing a therapist -find an actual doctorate that could prescribe pills (speaks to their level of education) but prefers not to. They often state this in their bio/website, and this way you can avoid any pill pushers, while getting the highest caliber of advisor.

I wish you luck, King Adepressedthrow.
> That's a contrived example because none of those lines could be protected by copyright, patents, etc.

Well no. The question I'm asking about, the philosophical distinction between "producing" or "combining" is a valid question no matter the copyrightability of anything. It's an interesting philosophical question even if we presume that copyright is bubkis.

> It was a hypothetical "AI" for the sake of discussion, not that it matters.

Ah, my mistake. I see that now.

> Of course I don't, it's a neural network. You don't know either.

I may not know how to make a lightbulb, but I do know hundreds of ways not to make one ;)
I’m not the parent commenter, but I believe they’re making the case that there are negative externalities that come from not wearing protective equipment which are borne by others in some form or another. In Canada, for example, there is a very direct cost to others because of their universal healthcare.
The Incidents and Gun Crimes section of that page is also extremely interesting by the way.
If my interpretation of the term is correct, by using Audacity, you are agreed that it can collect any data the authority request it. The data will be hosted on EU region but shared with Russia and USA too because they have branches on these countries.

That's not what I expect from a software that require no remote server to function.
Bit fascinating that there have been more information of Chinese tech in German than English. German's wikipedia entry for Chinese space program has more information than the English one.
Right, but I think there's a valid question of why you need to ban strings entirely, and why you can't have variable-length allocations provided you use the heap instead of VLAs. (You can.)
Car batteries arr recycled st a good price
> The rest of society asks that you not make personal defense decisions for us.

Thank you for inferring something I didn’t say and reprimanding me for it.
Looks like their beliefs naturally forbids them to endanger themselves and the other on the road. So far so good.
How do we obtain the source code to verify it wasnt infringed upon?
Using Tesla's own numbers for a turnkey installation such as this. Costs will probably come down another $50-80 per kWh with improvements in battery costs.
See it on the other way around. The fact that there are more Chinese science/tech folks understanding English than non Chinese understanding Mandarin means that there will be massive information asymmetry.
I assume that’d be doing some subsection of writing, like focusing on dialogue, or describing a scene, etc. From what I gather, you’d want to focus on one thing and try and get really good at it, then you could write a short story as a “scrimmage” to see how you’ve improved as a whole
Reading most of these comments, it is as if people seriously don't remember SourceForge or Google Code... GitHub is a giant centralized hosting repository that has notable weaknesses in issue tracking and doesn't spend much time working on improving its core use case of code browsing--it doesn't even have a graph view for the commit log, which I'd argue is almost "table stakes", much less "great" features like fast and easy code search or cross reference support--and instead has been slowly attempting to build lock-in by mostly building new tie-ins to their platform like GitHub CI in attempt to reduce portability between hosting providers (which, at the end of the day, is what they are: a hosting provider that purposefully used the name of the tech it is built on to cause market confusion over whether it was git and then refuses to implement stuff like custom cname support to reduce portability). They will get disrupted by something, though it might take another five years... and then--just like with SourceForge and Google Code--everyone who hosted their projects on it instead of owning their URL will experience dead links as the ecosystem fragments for a bit before re-coalescing on "the new hotness as GitHub is now lame"; "such is the way" :/. At best, GitHub gets to remain forever as Facebook, slowly attempting to replicate the features of new disruptive players like TikTok in an attempt to reduce attrition. Man, I remember when everything was on SourceForge... ;P.
The Feminist Past History Can't Give Us
I'm not a writer but I've used one drill where you set a theme and handwrite off the top of your head without pausing or erasing up to whatever set length. Like freestyling.
For a long time, GitHub had nice perks for anyone with a .edu email (free private repo for instance).

So I know a lot of devs who got started using GitHub since it was a seamless way to have an always-on git server to work on labs and homework.
In my opinion, if it's desired to have FOSS driven by individual contributors, the legal education aspect for each contributor is just as important as the contributors knowing how to code. Sadly I think some projects are way behind on that.
In middle school, my orchestra teacher taught “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice, makes perfect.” It’s a lot easier to perfect atomic-level techniques than an entire composition.

She also taught us not to “stop and start over” when we made mistakes. I think that is sort of like “don’t try to optimize early, get the code working then refactor later.”
No, that's much worse. Then we'd exhaust our devs playing wack-a-mole.
I don't think those pictures are "drill, not scrimmage", in that they are themselves perfectly good works of art. Actually, I like them more than his paintings, a lot more. Strange article, as if he didn't notice the black and white works are art too.[0] He never stopped practising art, making art.

[0] Well, not so strange in this world where ink drawings generally/often/usually/popularly aren't considered Art in the way oil paintings are. Imagine if piano music wasn't considered real music, not like orchestral music!
>So the "investing tip" is to gamble on wildly speculative investments rather than invest in index funds. Investing in highly undervalued assets - it's so simple, why didn't I think of that sooner!?

I don't think that's as useless a tip as you make it sound.

Suppose everybody invests in exactly the S&P 500. Nevertheless, each person can decide to hold the more speculative stocks in their Roth IRA and the others in a regular IRA, 401k, or taxable account.

That doesn't require identifying the best investments, just the relatively volatile ones.

So it seems like logical advice that is practical to implement, to me.
Spyware by any name is bad, and this law acknowledges it, so far as to protect children.
This product is absolutely sending the wrong message.

I've been riding motorcycles for a decade. My father was a motorcycle defensive driving instructor and somebody ran a red light and nailed him. My oldest brother was a semi-pro motorcycle racer and still died in a crash.

The only sane option when riding a motorcycle is a full face helmet and proper protective gear. Insisting on wearing religious garb while riding means you should not be riding.
You might be interested in Peak, by Anders Ericson. The author mentions him briefly, but the book is well worth reading. He looks at the case of Benjamin Franklin, and some of the strategies he used. In brief, he found pieces of writing that he especially admired, and transformed them in various ways, then tried to reproduce the original from the transformed versions. The version that seemed the post practical was to create a cue for each sentence, and attempt to reproduce the original wording from the cue. Another was to scramble the sentences of the piece and try to put them back in what felt like the most logical order. These seem pretty mechanical and rote, but they tie into an overall approach Ericson lays out called deliberate practice.
I'm quite sure there was a great example in the book "Talent is overrated" that goes through this with one of the early US presidents. Basically this guy wasn't much of a writer but then he employed the "deliberate practice" technique to methodically study, pull apart, rewrite and review+correct some of the great writings of the day, to improve his own writing. And ultimately he ended up apparently being a great writer. I guess there's a science to most things.
If you're keeping the same power input/output (50MW in this case) then you can add more tanks and scale out capacity with cost savings on storage, generation or transformation. "A bigger gas tank doesn't make the car go faster."

Scaling it out proportionally would only have economies of bulk purchase and site engineering.
What are you mad at, exactly? That people want to minimize the number of mistakes ML systems make due to skewed training data? Or that people don't want known problems to be baked into decision making systems that will impact real people?

Who are the SJWs here? Other people with PhDs that have different opinions from you? Did they ruin your research? Did they make OpenAI stop what they're doing?

Are you sure it's not your sense of reality that's distorted?
>“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice, makes perfect.”

That's word-for-word what my sensei says about karate.
Have a look a the writing for academic purposes material for second language learners.. there are books that break down writing into a process with stages that can be drilled.
>8TB hard drive is about 200 dollars nowadays, so this amount of data is about 1.6B dollars worthy of retail hard drives.

External hard drives can be obtained on sale for $15-16/TB. They can then be shucked to get internal drives. I suspect bulk buyers can get pricing equal or cheaper than this, rather than the retail of $25/TB
Nice. The Rust profiling story is pretty weak. Flamegraph is not nearly enough.

Grabbing traces like this is great. The next step is efficient visualization of trace data.
Why should the public pay for that?

Sounds like they are taking additional risks for no good reasons, why not let the market price the insurance premium?
The way the maintainer is behaving over this makes me want to take my chances with Muse Group instead.
Roll your own minilanguages with mini-interpreters (1989)
Limited to iOS 10 means an iPhone 5 or 5C. So you're talking about a phone which is eight or nine years old. Tell me, what non-Apple phone from 2012 would have given you better long term support?
For a safety product, that's not oversight, that's nigh criminal negligence.
Do you have any resources that you recommend for a dev who's only been in tiny startups (10 people or less)
More exhausting than developing towards an entirely different (and often redundant) feature set without any help from upstream? That's what is usually meant by "fork." If you want the minimal effort option and you don't care about new features or security fixes at all, you can just stick with an old version, no fork is necessary there either.
> Repeatedly doing it right

I have a funny story about that: When my sister struggled with Math at school, I let her solve equations she struggled with.

Unbeknownst to her, every test equation I gave her was identical to the previous one, but she didn’t notice because she focussed only on solving it.

After repeating this more than five times, she was astonished that all results were equal. Between the 5th to 10th times of solving that identical equation, she became very good at it.

Afterwards, I showed her that all equations were identical. She aced the school test the following day.
As someone who tested as "gifted" as child, I don't think as much naval gazing and self-analysis as this article describes is warranted for anyone, gifted or not. There are lots of productive ways in which to channel "giftedness" (success in school, creative pursuits, etc.), and this article instead puts giftedness on a pedestal, which (I think) is a bit indulgent and counterproductive.
Good insight
Well, as someone who stays on slightly old versions of iOS, that I can't even order food off of DoorDash is pretty frustrating. The reality is that people do in fact derelict these old devices under an expectation that everyone is rich enough to throw out perfectly functional equipment and replace it all the time. It is sad that Apple is actually the best at this :/.
"Great Hikes"?
The spread of weighing systems across Western Eurasia 4k years ago
I think his stress on the value of drawing is accurate. Art is like programming, a large part is language agnostic and transferable between languages.

With representational painting, the most important thing is to have a good sketch underneath, then have a coherent value design, and finally, have a good color design and brushwork. If you didn't nail the perspective or proportion, everything else is trash. Similarly, if you didn't nail your values, then no amount of color or brushwork will save you.
> I truly meant no offense

Work on your approach.
Yes, you can call it that but I haven't been in my current position long enough to qualify for a sabbatical. Also, the sabbatical is only like for a few weeks. I feel that doesnt fit with my notion of a longer-term break.
How much voting power does that group have? They can't be that big, because if they are the country would be empty in several decades' time
Well, I'll claim they are potentially worse than bricks, as they are riddled with remotely exploitable security holes (such as the various iMessage ones that come out every year)... like some kind of dangerous land mine in the shape of a brick.
You're wrong, go see my reply to the other guy. What a miserable lot you two make.
Marvel Officially Moves into NFTs
Sounds like it worked out well for you. Congrats!
Open source simply means the source is publicly available. There can be, and often are, restrictions on how the source can be used.
When it hits the ground going 50mph its not staying on. Period.
China is using mythology and sci-fi to sell its space program to the world
I don't find this so convincing.

Most normal usera may not be able to secure things effectively and they can still use the existing iCloud / Google Play infrastructure. That doesn't mean that other users, who want to manage their own data for one reason or another, shouldn't get the opportunity.

It's far more likely that building and maintaining this feature is not worth the development time for Apple and Google product teams at this point, since the possible market is small
You just exploded my brain.
The article claims that Apple is on track to spend around $300 million on GCP storage services this year. With redundancies, server costs, and DC costs, the upfront price could easily touch 3 to 6 billion, or 10 to 20 years of GCP storage costs.
Under possible book titles ” All Guns are Loaded” ah, the prequel to the best seller ”Finger off the trigger”. Would have liked to read that.