skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Past related threads (may be incomplete):

Rust heads into the kernel? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27248059 - May 2021 (179 comments)

Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26831841 - April 2021 (290 comments)

An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26812047 - April 2021 (261 comments)

Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24334731 - Aug 2020 (354 comments)

Linux kernel in-tree Rust support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23800201 - July 2020 (491 comments)

Linux kernel drivers in Rust might become an option in the future - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20833639 - Aug 2019 (254 comments)
Even without the censorship, the non well-reasoned narratives would still drown out the well-reasoned ones. The social media hypothesis that many opinions could be distilled down into useful information has been a failure.

So I'm speaking locally based on the people that I know personally who have bought into the "skepticism", and they don't seem well-reasoned at all. For example, one sent me a video saying that Covid is caused by 5G and asked my opinion (thank goodness for small things). I responded with corrections of specific technical claims in the video, only to have them fall back to relativism because "nobody can know". Ultimately the manipulation and conviction in the video won out over scientific facts. It's like the new dark ages.

Also, there are also Internet forums with a higher signal to noise ratio than effortless-publishing mass-media, and I do believe that if there were anything worthwhile it would gain momentum.
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Because it's an automatic process that detects hot phrases. I doubt they get many videos saying they support white supremacy.
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If I make my code non-GPL specifically so other people can use it for profit, I effectively donated to a for-profit company. Why the hell would I do that?
>"racism = power + prejudice", all whites have institutional power, etc)

Oh please. The attempt to redefine "racism" to exclude white people is itself hilariously racist. It's propaganda that tries to influence people through deceptive language. If the people behind that had honest intentions they would have created a new word to describe the phenomenon rather than try to redefine existing words.
Any modern, major browser will bloat your install size & minimum system requirements (if you want to actually use the software you've got, that is).

I recently used a very minimal install of Void on a machine that crushes what I had in, say, 2005, on a performance basis (2GB memory, dual-core Celeron clocked over 1Ghz, solid-state disk) and the whole system was slooooow and choppy even using mostly suckless software like dwm, including their Surf (webkit-based but otherwise as minimal as it gets) browser—if I opened even one "web app" or more than a couple lighter pages at once.

If you remove the requirement for a modern Web experience, we used to fit pretty damn good GUI operating systems on single live-boot floppy disks (QNX had one of these, IIRC, and it was great—much better UI responsiveness under load than a Linux desktop, kinda like BeOS but even tinier)
good advice for the above average tech-savvy user, but alas useless for >90% of users.
We referred to this method of numerically solving Poisson's equation by successively averaging values, as the method of relaxation.
Hey all! Launched the beta for rysolv 6 months ago, and have been working on a lot of features since then.

How it works:

- Anyone can add a bounty to an issue

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Major updates since beta:

- Dropped the 10% rysolv fee.

- Added repo donations. So a portion of bounties are contributed back to the maintainers (https://rysolv.com/how-to#bounties)

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> What if the startup says that in case if it fails or shut down, it will make the source code public?

I don't know if marketing people will approve mentioning such a thing. And yes it's a big project to adapt a SaaS platform to self hosted or on premise. I don't see that happening after the death of a startup.

Paying more to get the source code could work. But in my personal case, I usually have small projects and a fair pricing is necessary. When I see a "contact us" price to do on-premise in SaaS for example, I don't even bother to contact and I look for something else. I can't afford it if I have to ask about the price.
macOs went to 11.
I’m a solo founder right now and I agree with the limits part but at the same time, as you have pointed out, it is similar stress or even more to deal with finding and keeping the right cofounder.

Unless both (or all) founders are aligned with the same mission and vision, it will be an emotional rollercoaster that IMO might drag the progress down.

For these reasons I find it more comfortable staying solo founder and dealing with all the aspect of running the business.
We‘ve taken this conversation pretty far over the past 12-days (thanks for sticking with it!). I think it‘s fair to circle back to your original question that I responded to:

> Why is the subjective experience of gender privileged over the objective biology of sex?

My point was that biology is not all that objective and if we were to use pronouns in accordance with your thesis, we‘d eliminate the identity of many intersex people.

Whether gender-identity can be out of sync with your body in the absence of conditions described as intersex (which, for the record, I do believe in) and whether it should be respected is somewhat orthogonal to that. I believe the examples I’ve given of conditions where biology is either ambiguous or actively out of sync are sufficient to illustrate that using “ objective biology” would eliminate the identity of many intersex people. It’s my opinion, that that alone is reason enough to privilege gender over sex.
No - since even warming areas will experience weather and climate instability which is very hard to manage. We as humans like plants are good at adapting to certain conditions, if these conditions are volatile we can't adapt. Plants and animals can't adapt.

So no, there is no possibility of anything positive in this.
It seems to be though that it is consisted of some structured elements(I don't know much about Finnish orthography\honology)

So if it has some predictable structure, statistical attributes etc, it can be exploited to reduce the search space and therefore can be weaker than the actual raw entropy.

Does that matter in the real world? I don't think so.
> rather than add a curve to a test that makes a 23 out of 100 an "A" grade.

For people wondering why fresh college grads they interview somehow have 4.0 averages yet can’t code FizzBuzz during an interview, this is the answer.

It’s also why good hiring managers do not even bother to look at GPAs listed on CVs. They are so inflated as to be totally meaningless.
Back to the top: have US citizens shown any real interest in holding leadership accountable for this?
Tbh, I actually will take the possibly controversal stance that I do not think governments, foreign or otherwise should be prevented from broadcasting provided that they do not attempt to disrupt the broadcasts of others in the same network. Then it's simply a violation of ToS like any regular user.

Problem is though that the networks always play favorites with governments they have business relations with or property in.
I'm really puzzled by the belief that the world's plant life was ever fixed at all.
The US. Where I believe cap gains taxes apply to both cap gains and dividends. Which honestly makes sense me — either you “cash out” individually or the company does it for you (to pay the dividend).

From what you say, dividends seem like a negative thing taxes-wise, so why would any company opt pay them out? I’m sure there’s some intricacy there.
The worst thing about this will be all the discussions that you will miss out on that everyone will assume you know.

Several years ago I was the first and only remote person on the team, and often would find myself with an assigned task with no details, or "talk to so and so", even worse would be working on a story only to find out some implementation detail changed and the response was "oh, we talked about that the other day". This was magnified 2x when I was also working in a significantly different timezone.
No need to. Names, titles, and short phrases are not protected by copyright.

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf

You're probably thinking about trademarks, which only protect the use of an identifier when used in the business of a particular trade.
Removing optimizations on "global" variables will leave the bug in Singleton objects (which are very similar to global variables, but the compiler doesn't know that they're global)

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"Volatile" is close but not good enough semantically to describe what we want. That's why these new Atomic-variables are being declared with seqcst semantics (be it in Java, C++, C, or whatever you program in).

That's the thing: we need a new class of variables that wasn't known 20 years ago. Variables that follow the sequential-consistency requirements, for this use case.

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Note: on ARM systems, even if the compiler doesn't mess up, the L1 cache could mess you up. ARM has multiple load/store semantics available. If you have relaxed (default) semantics on a load, it may be on a "stale" value from DDR4.

That is to say: your loop may load a value into L1 cache, then your core will read the variable over and over from L1 cache (not realizing that L3 cache has been updated to a new value). Not only does your compiler need to know to "not store the value in a register", the memory-subsystem also needs to know to read the data from L3 cache over-and-over again (never using L1 cache).

Rearranging loads/stores on x86 is not allowed in this manner. But ARM is more "Relaxed" than x86. If reading the "Freshest" value is important, you need to have the appropriate memory barriers on ARM (or PowerPC).
Old != bad.

Old and well maintained software can be reliable and secure, it just rate to encounter it. Maintenance is underappreciated. People don't get rises and promotions for successful maintenance of an old system. But they get it for new projects even if this project is rewriting of an old system in a new language/framework (even if a rewrite introduces new bugs, vulnerabilities and drops some old features).

So if an organization has money to spare, the software will be re-written every several years to flow the fashion and if doesn't have money security will suffer too.
Where would they get the talent and expertise to do that? Whats the most you can make at government job? $170k? How much money do engineers make at AWS? I just had a recruiter call me for architect role that was $500k in compensation a year.
What?

A couple of points. The whitehouse blocked any disclosures of discussions / pressure even to the inspector general. They also issued notices to staff not to talk to IG. That's a pretty darn good sign that there WAS involvement by the whitehouse.

The DoD is dropping this case because they were asked to reveal some of this information. Instead of disclosing it, they elect to cancel the contract. This was a specific issue in the current case, would DoD have to reveal this type of communication from whitehouse.

Yes - people claim no pressure / no involvement - but it's blindingly obvious that there is a very good chance there was pressure.

I have past experience with govt contracting so have a sense for what the flows look like.

Contract selection put on hold, involvement of a political person (probably esper here). Ban on anyone talking about the potential discussion to internal auditors. Those are all the red flags.
... you mean Openstack, that ended up being a total failure?
Sure, you could. But much like the real lottery, it's not worth playing a game that has negative expected value. At this point, my understanding is that mining BTC with anything other than an ASIC is not going to be worth the cost in electricity.
I'd have loved to have been arond to a Dead show! I know it sounds a little ungrateful coming from someone who lives in a period of unprecedented access to all kinds of wonderful music being written all the time, but there's something about the Dead that really connects with me that I can't quite put my finger on.
I can’t read the article due to paywall, but “did not dismiss the idea that” is different from “there is evidence that”.

Can you summarize/quote the relevant parts of the article? What evidence did the court find?
David Benatar reached a similar philosophic conclusion due to his utilitarian views, which was amusingly put (with a sort of AI present, no less) in this webcomic: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/253
on a jeep it refers to the fact that the particular trim level is able to successfully navigate the famous rubicon trail - a offroading trail. no wonder people are confused by your question
You thought Packt just published bad books
Ah, the classic tug of war continues between the principle of least privilege and convenience/productivity. It's safe to say people's opinions are all over the spectrum.

Despite favoring "least privilege" myself, I find the new nag screens overbearing. I think some basic UI reworking can help to alleviate that, though. It's a new feature; they'll get it right within a couple of iterations.
I'm not into cryptocurrency at all, but I've read that some of the billion-dollar casinos in Las Vegas take it.

My domain registrar does, and it's not exactly a fly-by-night operation.

I think at least one airline does. Though I might be remembering that wrong.

I won't ever get into crypto because I like money that keeps working when the lights go out. But I don't think it's either as fringe, nor as mainstream, as the two sides present.
Trusting other people to administrate your home computer is totally ok though because they're actually experts.
> Does this imply that another guest Worker can impact/takedown my Worker due to their tasks misbehaving?

No, the system is designed to prevent that. Each guest runs in its own V8 isolate which we carefully control to prevent interference.

(Of course, all software has bugs from time to time. But we consider it a security flaw if one worker can somehow disrupt other workers, and handle it accordingly.)
Something to keep in mind about making unknown changes to a landscape: it's not by coincidence that most changes would be for the worse.

It's not because the status quo is globally optimal, but because humans have invested a lot in the way things are.

We happen to have built cities on coastlines, put farms where food grows, put bridges where the rivers are, and so on. We can shake things up and get unknown results, but most random changes will be for the worse because we've molded our civilization to the planet we already have.

And this goes not only for humans, but even moreso for other species, who are much slower to adapt to changes.
As a layman, can you explain to me why a very accurate (i.e. small error) model wouldn't still lead to catastrophically incorrect results when projected across a long timespan?
> Access to any global variable should always occur direct from memory.

What if your function takes a pointer that might be pointing to a global variable? Does that mean that all accesses through a pointer are now excempt from optimization unless the compiler can prove that the pointer will never point to a global variable?
I have to say, the PR guy at Kaseya deserves a pat on the back for this headline:

"Kaseya Responds Swiftly to Sophisticated Cyberattack, Mitigating Global Disruption to Customers"
Why do non-US people feel the need to whine about this all the time? "They wouldn't be far-left in my country!" is completely irrelevant and contributes nothing to the conversation. In the US, which is where both I and WaPo reside, they are far-left.
> How can I, as an Indian citizen, "resist"

Vote and encourage others to do the same, call out fake narratives in discussions with friends and family
The idea that everything becomes a signal gets even more disturbing if you realize that the field of mechanism design is concerned with presenting you options where identifying the truth about yourself or not play at all is your only rational options.

Famously applied in auctions and amazon algorithms to extract the maximum welfare from the consumer. Also the reason why FAANG hired so many mathematical economists recently.
In what language, is this written?

Why the, confusing comma?

, like Yoda, Is it?
Is it possible to buy a cheap device off alibaba?
There are some really security conscious places where you can’t bring in any device with a camera. So you have to leave your smartphone in the locker and the company provides its users with cameraless laptops.
That's old school. targeted attacks today, hone in on critical infrastructure before striking.

Many times data is exfiltrated beforehand, backups are deleted. If someone went the trouble of compromising a 3rd party software vendor, he knows what he is doing.
If you consider the Washington Post to be far-left, you might need to recalibrate your Overton window. The paper leans slightly left. It's far from the Daily Kos.
The wild thing is that the ransomware operations are making so much money that they can afford to buy multi-million dollar zero day vulns that at one point were only available to nation states or fortune 500 companies. Every successful round of extortion just gives them more ammunition to purchase more of them, hire more engineers, etc.

This kind of illicit capital flow totally makes a mockery of AML regulations. All the rules that were created after 9/11 are out the window - this time it's money to pay for zero days, but it's not a huge leap for this kind of illicit capital flow to end up paying for a huge terror op, paramilitary coup, etc. We'll be reading the next blue ribbon commission's retrospective findings for some horrific event in a few years and it'll be obvious what we failed at.
They key thing was the court saw enough smoke to keep case alive AND it looked like recently was going to force some disclosure around communications from whitehouse (whitehouse has variously claimed no involvement).
Linux Foundation to form new Open 3D Foundation
I always thought developing a game engine just to hopefully get some AWS revenue from the web part seemed like an unrealistic business model.

If a big company is going to adopt your engine they want your incentive to be making it the best engine possible, not selling you more SaaS integrations.
The Berne convention sets down some basic principles, but there are an awful lot of edge cases and it is very much the case that things can be copyrighted in one country but not another.

Heck, the duration of copyright isn't even uniform around the world.
The only reason there isn’t an official Markdown spec is that John Gruber blocked the effort at creating one. A bunch of people made a great spec that eliminates all the ambiguities and tried to make it “Standard Markdown”.

Gruber then threatened them with legal action (since he holds the copyright on the word Markdown and for some reason hates proper specifications), so they had to rename their spec “CommonMark”.

Most of the big Markdown-using services (GitHub, GitLab, Reddit, Stack Overflow, etc.) implement this spec, so it is basically the Markdown spec, all but in name.

It can be found at https://spec.commonmark.org/
I don't think the person you're replying to said anything that disagrees with your assessment.
I think you should certify systems in place, not engineers.

People without credentials but with experience and care can produce a reasonably secure system. People with credentials but under time pressure and contradictory requirements, and willingness to cut corners, can produce an unsafe system.

It's the system that fails. It can be inspected the way buildings are inspected.
Hahaha. I lived there and we called it that all the time. More common among friends living on south side tho
"You call it sour grapes and then describe how someone is stealing something of value."

This is absurd, and this is just circular. I feel like many of the open source arguments, particularly GPL-based, are predicated on detached bullshit.
> we know it won’t do anything good

This kind of absolute confidence about an extremely unpredictable change in an extremely dynamic and complicated system is not remotely scientific. We can predict (reasonably) that the changes will be overall worse, but it would IMO be pretty shocking if there were _no_ positive effects:

- Growing seasons are longer in near-arctic regions
- Higher CO2 means plants photosynthesize easier, requiring less water in desert regions
- The arctic passage means shorter cargo vessel trips

This doesn't balance out the overall crisis, but there are going to be a lot of changes both directions.
There isn’t any evidence but people adjust their priors based on historical conduct, and at some point you lose the benefit of the doubt.
For what? The initial design work and a demo deployment can be outsourced. After the design is proven then cheaper sysadmins can run the thing.

Also, the fact that government jobs are so capped like that is a conspiracy to make the public sector suck, basically. We should fix that too, but I recognize it cannot be done in time, hence allowing that the design work to be outsourced.
Optimizing for Mutual Physical Attraction (OMPA)
Saint Louis | CEO | REMOTE

OMPA is currently a PyTorch model that predicts if you’ll find a face attractive or not. It requires about 10 minutes of work from a user to gather enough data to train an accurate model specific to that user. It involves ranking 7 faces from most attractive to least attractive.

I have a working model that is good enough to be used as an auto-swiper, but my goal is more ambitious: solving the “stable marriage problem” and fixing digital dating’s well-understood problem: the most attractive users capture almost all the matches, leaving normal people like myself with less interest than we’d receive offline.

Also, we need to Optimize for Mutual Emotional Attraction. But one hard problem at a time! :)

To do this I need an equal partner who is great at “Product” — i.e., using an innovative technology like OMPA to create a product that people will actually find value in.

OMPA isn’t a product yet. It’s just a tool. The question is whether that tool enables the creation of a product capable of fixing digital matchmaking. I believe it can, but know myself well enough to know that without a brilliant CEO guiding it, OMPA will remain just a cool toy I tinker on.

I’d love to schedule a demo of anyone who is interested: nate.wildermuth@gmail.com
When Amazon Prime video first came out, the catalog was extremely poor - I suspect they cheaply licensed a large library of old, obscure releases in order to have something to launch. But they also had simple, effective algorithms for content discovery as opposed to the herding algorithms of today. I seem to recall they even had a "random" categorization which seemed to be truly randomized and which was wonderfully hit or miss.