skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not up on my open source community politics, but I'm intrigued by the motivations. Let's take it as a given that everything in this post is 100% correct. It certainly sounds like a common enough occurrence. Those 3 antagonists are acting out of malice and greed.

What's the play here? What does one do once one has acquired control of a linux tool or a mailing list or a consortium? Is it just to have power over something? Or is that power useful to some further goal?
Pre-Uber, driving a taxi was a survival job for most and they could (and often did) switch to Uber. The only drivers who made significant money drove 24-7 and had a relationship with their customers. I doubt they were hurt either.

The group that I assume got screwed were owners of local taxi companies and they were just corrupt cronies of the local government and screw them.
I didn’t realize Hailey was behind both.
I visit hubski.com occasionally. It's not super active but it seems to have a lot of smart people on it.
In my experience in Asia it's about 50-50 chance that it's either double-press, long press or second press that cancels it or that it's not enabled.
awa = away, sae = so

He’s saying the mouse needn’t leave so quickly.
I tunnel everything through an overseas server for the same reason, but it's waived away in the blog as "not gaining anything" and "shifting the trust from one ISP to another" - Well, yes. That's the point.
This is awesome! The ride sharing platforms should plug into the universal transportation app that serves public transit, cabs, car share, etc. I gotta see Barcelona.
I think the larger issue of accomplishing this, and many other actions, via EO, is that the nexts administration can simply turn around and revoke or alter at-will. We saw that from Obama->Trump->Biden administrations pretty swiftly in first few months of each successive administration.
Here's a link to the controversial mailing list post: http://linux-audio.4202.n7.nabble.com/READ-THIS-IF-YOU-CARE-...

Coelho's reply: http://linux-audio.4202.n7.nabble.com/Clarifications-and-bac...
Whilst such things have been common in large corporation office political culture for decades, too see it play out in the wild like this in open source, is just shocking.

Sadly it does seem to be becoming more and more, more since some view open source/projects as potential revenue streams and be it irc, or some carefully nurtured project that has grown over a lifetime, to be rug pulled by such `political games` all in the end for what I dare say be some agenda greed. It just saddens us all.
That's a diaeresis, not an umlaut. Same symbol but different phenomena. An umlaut is a sound shift in a vowel to make it more like another vowel. For example in Icelandic a word like "Katla" will decline the final "a" to "u," which then causes the first "a" to become "ö". The a -> ö shift is umlaut. A diaeresis, however, marks a vowel that is pronounced separately from an adjacent vowel instead of as a diphthong.
I heard it's a lie
Graal without enterprise features offers a 10% improvement with all the will-i-get-sued that comes with any product from Oracle; I would rather simmer in a vat of acid
They could just mean "the CIA's record, specifically". There's plenty there.
If you asked me 5 years ago if I thought something like this could happen I'd have said no. Then I relocated to SiValley and experienced Machiavellian engineers for the first time in my 20+ year career. It's good to remember that not everyone puts technology and community first. Some people will do whatever it takes to make a name for themselves, even if that just means being slightly less forgotten than they would have been previously.
It's definitely niche, and I seem to recall some really interesting fonts that did interesting things that encouraged some really wacky and neat projects, but I can't recall names...
At the end of the day, I kinda don't think this is a big deal. Roupenian was careless not to scrub real-life personal details out of Cat Person, but I think what happened was a bit of a freak accident that she unfortunately failed to foresee, and she apologized.

It does make you wonder how much you can trust supposedly slice-of-life fiction, if a friend of one of the "characters" finds the story a poor representation of the person they knew. I suspect some of the darkness in Roupenian's stories comes from a twist in her own perspective, not necessarily from the awfulness of men she's dated.
Quenya is still alive if you want it to be. Maybe less so than Sindarin though.
Battery storage for utilities will be the high-cost alternative. Other methods are being proven at scale, and will ultimately eliminate the competition for batteries.

The most mature of these is "stored hydro", in which water is pumped up to a dam reservoir. Obviously this depends on having a dam not too far away, a ready source of water below it, and enough spare generating capacity there to take up the load when needed. Ramp-up is near instantaneous.

In places with deep mine shafts, a similar gravitational storage method is practical: suspend a heavy weight (hundreds or even thousands of tons) at the top of the shaft, attached to cables that turn a motor-generator as they unwind. This has the advantage that it may ramp up to full power in seconds, and the available energy is limited only by the depth of the shaft. Obviously this depends on availability of long vertical mineshafts, but there are very many of these worldwide. The tech involved is all 19th-century, so these only need construction. When excess / cheap power is available, the weight is hoisted back up.

Another is underground compressed air. (This may be combined with the above, pumping air into the same mineshaft, as is being done in one pilot installation.) This, also, relies only on 19th-century technology. Roughly half of the energy stored in compressed air becomes heat, so efficient use requires good heat insulation. Earth serves as excellent insulation. Power is extracted by exhaust through a turbine; existing turbines from older generation schemes may be repurposed. Ramp-up is fast. The reservoir must be charged up for some time in advance to be able to get maximum power out at sudden need. Several examples of this are being demonstrated.

Air liquification is a perhaps surprising alternative. It relies on mature 20th-century technology; there have long been numerous industrial uses for liquified air. For maximum full-cycle efficiency, heat extracted from the air is also banked. A GW-scale plant is under construction in Scotland, and a 50 MW demonstrator is breaking ground in Chile. An advantage of air liquification is that the storage capacity is limited only by the number of cheap insulated tanks built, which may be added to at leisure.

The above are the immediately available alternatives. Efficient hydrolysis of water to produce hydrogen has obvious industrial importance, and it may eventually displace other methods, as there is no upper limit to the useful amount of hydrogen that may be usefully produced from surplus generating capacity, even after local tankage is full.
As programming is theory building, do we seriously believe GPT3 can create quality code?
To be clear, NSM is one project, and doesn't represent all of Linux Audio.
NSM is a decent session management API. Currently recommended for any kind of session management in PipeWire.

Unfortunate that JML imploded like this, his work is legendary and software elegant.

All smear campaigns aside it's really crap to see this continuing hostility. Free Software also means moving on after a conflict and learning from past mistakes, and fork when necessary. Not to throw a tantrum and destroy all your work.

Btw most NSM stuff works pretty good under PipeWire. RaySession is a nice tool for that: https://github.com/Houston4444/RaySession
That's from 2009, and pops up a notice:

This version is outdated!
For the latest version, please look at
https://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/.

The current version does contain show a "CLOSED" state with value 3.
Is there any reason to think there's a ceiling on these types of products or a big distinction between different types of engineering? I understand there will still be software engineers to validate, supervise, etc. But what if every team of 10 people today can be reduced to 3? What will that do to the industry? I have two FANG companies on my resume, so I'm pretty confident that if there were a decimation I'd survive, but I think life would be very different.
Hyperlinks were invented for a reason.
How can you trust the mailing lost when the accused are the heavy-handed moderators of that list?
https://linuxaudio.org/
Na should be "not."

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,

"Translation"/update to more standard current English:

Small, sleek, cowering timorous beast

Oh, what a panic in your chest.

You need not start away so quickly.
On iPhone X, Safari, with the Google option, it opens a new window to complete the login flow, but I have to manually return to my original window, where it is logged in.
That's one side of the story, if anyone cares to read the other, this appears to be the mailing list thread that is being referred to: https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-dev/2021-F...

Then there's also this reddit comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxaudio/comments/lk3u74/non_sess...

> New Session Manager was created as a fork because Non Session Manager grew stale and Jonathan was very abrasive to work with [..] getting PRs/patches merged didn't go anywhere.

> Also Jonathan (the Non suite creator) removed all his repos [..], which is something that's obviously not acceptable behavior.

The "new session manager" appears to be on GitHub: https://github.com/jackaudio/new-session-manager

Please also note that this drama is months old at this point.
Historic Power Plant: Mining Bitcoin Is More Profitable Than Selling Electricity
Foxconn is dangling a shiny new EV plant in front of Wisconsin
It is one sided, by definition.

However creating a fork with the same acronym and name for the daemon or binaries or whatever seems pretty under-handed.

Was a release announcement for the original software moderated, on a list where release announcements had been posted without moderation before the fork? Was the author banned from lists?
> The lineage is more like OS-8 -> TOPS-10 -> CP/M -> DOS, although TOPS-10 did a lot more than CP/M etc because it was running on a small mainframe and not a micro.

Gary Kildall had experience with a bunch of different DEC systems, definitely PDP-8s running OS/8 and PDP-11s running RT-11, he may have had some experience with PDP-10s as well. I would say he more took ideas from DEC operating systems in general rather than copying any one of them in particular, but if people want to cite particular ones, OS/8 and RT-11 are mentioned more often than TOPS-10.

He also used IBM VM/CMS at the Naval Postgraduate School, which is arguably where CP/M gets drive letters from – CMS uses single letters to identify disks, DEC operating systems generally used multi-character device names like DL0: or RKA0: instead.

> Some of the philosophy of TOPS-20 made it into VMS.

Can you give a specific example of this? VMS was mainly influenced by RSX-11. What did it get from TOPS-20 that it didn't get from RSX-11?
How do you kill that which has no life?
Googling for short foreign words that look like misspelled English words is gonna be tough. I recommend something like the Online Scots Dictionary: https://www.scots-online.org/dictionary/scots_english.php
Αργεντινη – Βραζιλια προγνωστικα στοιχηματος Copa America 2020
Το Μαρακάνα θα φιλοξενήσει μια συγκλονιστική σύγκρουση την Κυριακή, καθώς η χώρα υποδοχής Βραζιλία και Αργεντινή θα πολεμήσουν στον τελικό του φετινού Copa America 2020. Με τις δύο πλευρές να είναι ιστορικές σε αυτόν τον διαγωνισμό, η Βραζιλία θα στοχεύσει να κερδίσει το τρόπαιο για 10η φορά, ενώ οι αντίπαλοί τους θα προσθέσουν έναν 15ο τίτλο Copa America στο ντουλάπι με τα τρόπαια με μια κατάκτηση. Οι οικοδεσπότες θα επιδιώξουν να διατηρήσουν τον τίτλο μετά το θρίαμβό τους το 2019, ενώ οι άντρες του Λάιονελ Σκαλόνι αναζητούν το πρώτο τους κομμάτι από τα μεγάλα τρόπαια από τα τέλη του αιώνα. Αυτά προς το παρόν για τα σημερινά Αργεντινη – Βραζιλια προγνωστικα Copa America 2020
Um sorry Steve but "This is a great investment...for you, not for me" is not convincing.
Sure, the "right conditions" being "cheaper than other sources". :-)

There are a few things that we extract from seawater right now... common salt, obviously (though a lot of that is also mined), magnesium, bromine...

It's definitely not a completely cockamamie idea, but I have no idea whether this particular process is enough cheaper than existing sources to make it worthwhile.

They claim $5 USD/kg for electrical costs. Capital costs are unspecified.

Looks like lithium metal goes for about $80-85/kg, so it seems promising, depending on what kind of capital investment is required.
Upwork, it's one name that springs in my mind. And as any marketplace, it has its slackers and hard workers.
Yes, but then depicting a military first aid kit in a game, as it appears in real life...is somewhat normal. At least to me. That's what you see on TV and movies.

And, FWIW, those first aid kits in big green plastic boxes are mostly used by regular soldiers. The medics have different kits in backpack looking containers called an M-9.
I didnt think about that!

I personally know 3 boomers that retired last year to avoid exposure to COVID. I don't know a ton of people but thats definitely the most I've known to retire in one year
Agordejo is also a good NSM front-end.

https://www.laborejo.org/agordejo

RaySession kinda unilaterally pushes the spec for advanced features, but there was stagnation in the core NSM because the main dev essentially refused to work with most other developers.

Now there is the community NSM and the spec is slightly tighter and the reference client is a bit more reliable.
If you are looking to use Java. This is very good

https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf

There’s also Kotlin multi platform
Define "overproduction".
I thought (and it's a long time ago) that DG was essentially the core of the internal DEC group that were trying to make a successor to the PDP-8 who lost out internally to the group who designed the PDP-11
From the same commenter:

https://pastebin.com/S3Px6RA6

Enjoy!
Repeatedly when Ivermectin was widely deployed, you see consistenly sharp drops in cases within two weeks, shortly followed by drops in hospitalizations and deaths.

https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/epide...

The same thing has been consistenly reproduced in dozens of trials, including dozens of RCTs.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34145166/

https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/of...

And you don't need a big RCT for everything. You need to do a risk/benefit analysis and ensure that it makes clinical sense. Doctors talk between each other and share what works for their patients and what doesn't.

If there's near zero risk and cost, and it's shown repeatedly to save at least 60% of lives then erring on the side of caution would be to use it. The cost of doing nothing is millions of deaths and trillions in economic damage.

Even the failed RCTs show improvement, just not a statistically significant one. This is usually due to bad trial design: too small doses, too late treatment, widespread self medication in the placebo group, undisclosed financial interests, no exclusion of vaccinated or those who already had COVID, etc.

For comparison, Remdesivir has 539 reported deaths, Ivermectin has 20 deaths total over 4 billions doses, which makes it order of mangitude safer.

http://www.vigiaccess.org/

Remdesivir was approved based on a single sponsored RCT that showed negligible improvement, and yet it was approved, and yet a safe drug studies by hundreds of scientists isn't in dozens of trials isn't.

Ivermectin is not a panacea, that's why it should be combined with other things that are safe and have evidence of improved outcomes (e.g. Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Quercetin, Zinc).

https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mask-pl...
Fame, resume padding, and consulting gags, especially recruiters and companies looking at GitHub projects as some kind of metrics.
I am not sure what this article is trying to accomplish.

Consciousness might be binary, so rabbits might have it?

Can you define consciousness at all?
At least in corporations there is money at stake, so I get (do not excuse, but understand) shitty behaviour. But all that seems to be at stake here is clout.
I don't like this kind of journalism. Lede promises answers but article is the opposite - a very long, unstructured set of stories and reflections and the ultimate conclusion is "Both sides are right, and both are wrong...". Its hard work as a reader to extract any knowledge here.
Chicago was the worse for this
There used to be 4-pixel wide fonts (actually 3-pixels plus 1-pixel space) to get 70 columns of text on a 280x192 Apple ][.

See the software "Supertext 40/56/70"

https://books.google.com/books?id=ATAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&lpg=P...
It appears that Fedora dumped this guy's version in favor of the fork some time back: they package new-session-manager, not NOM. Seems the fork was years ago.
> But what if every team of 10 people today can be reduced to 3?

This article uses the phrase "Automating Programming", but that phrase is not new. The term "Automatic Programming" was coined in 1958 by John Backus, and he was referring to his FORTRAN compiler.

Think about the tens of billions of humans who could have been employed writing Assembly over the past half century if we hadn't invented high-level programming languages.

What happens to programmers? They move up the abstraction ladder and tackle bigger problems, faster. Some people get left behind, sure. But then, ask the operators of punchcard machines how life is going. So maybe the "learn Python+HTML+JS in six months and become employable" status quo evaporates. But for at least another century there will always plenty of work for clever problem solvers who know how to tell computers to do things.

(FWIW, I'm not a programmer and haven't been employed as one since I was in school as an undergraduate, but I do I employ/manage a fair amount of people who program.)
You know, people say stuff like this a lot, and I used to believe it.

But the web just feels like it’s getting slower, grinding up CPU. I think in aggregate, this stuff does matter and it’s just wishful thinking to say it doesn’t.

It’s like at some point as a profession we took the mantra of “don’t prematurely optimize” as an excuse.

Honestly, js feels like a much better language today, especially with ts, and hopefully there are improvements that can be made with modern approaches at the JIT layer, but until then, I’d love it if we could just have a more performant web. It might not matter to you on your powerful dev machine, but it does to me now that I’ve given up the powerful dev machine.
Politician engineers, ugh.
Perhaps the most interesting point, which I hadn't considered in all of this, is the amount of advertising and discounts offered by VPN companies. Bandwidth is relatively expensive for a fixed price service. If a VPN is expecting you to slurp down gigabytes of data overseas each day, surely that transit has a cost, right?

Why is it that some services offer astounding 93% off discounts [0]? Why is that they almost always have capital to sponsor seemingly all sorts of random assorted content?

Tom Scott has a bit of a point: it's really odd that there are just so many of these companies, and they offer very suspiciously good prices. Is that the byproduct of everyone buying and not using VPNs? Or something else?

[0]: hxxps://www [dot] bleepingcomputer [dot] /offer/deals/new-deal-93-percent-off-a-windscribe-vpn-pro-lifetime-subscription/
If you want fake stats to support a specific viewpoint it's much less risk and very easy to simply phrase everything as a leading question directed towards certain answers. Like an uncentered Likert scale:

1) Perfect 2) Great 3) Very Good 4) Good 5) Okay 6) Neutral 7) Poor

5 out of 7 options are positive and only 1 is negative.
As a bonus, the neutral & negative are listed last so you have to read through lesser positive options and the neutral before you get to the negative.
Or maybe there is just a varied group of enthusiastic geeks that just want to collaborate on common tooling like APIs, libraries, frameworks, packaging, and distribution.

It may "seem" that there's some sort of "take-over", it's just that people are actually coordinating on these common goals of free software audio tools.
I do, though it’s not just that, it’s also the read and typing notifications and stuff I don’t like. Disabling it would make it more tolerable though.

However, there really are things I want someone to have the ability to notify immediately for. Narrow time slots on in demand hardware like prototypes or FPGAs, change of team location in a lunch room or a big lab, and drop what you’re doing and debug this when it makes sense.

Maybe I just don’t focus as deep as others.
He hasn't provided a citation. He's told someone they can do their own research an a mailing list. A parallel might be me claiming that we have a highly algorithm for factoring large primes and saying you can look it up on arxiv.org - I've pointed at a repository of knowledge, but not actually cited why I believe the fact.

Providing a citation is pointing at a specific place where the information came from at the smallest granular level. In this case, a citation would be something like links to specific threads.
For as long as I can recall, it seems that every couple of years someone decides the current state of audio on linux is terrible, but instead of trying to fix the existing available code, they start a new project. Usually there's a node to maintaining compatibility with other libraries, but that interoperability stops right where the new project thinks the old projects are Doing It Wrong.

The X vs Wayland fight is polite to a fault in comparison.
If anyone's looking for a bitmap/pixel font that covers many symbols, including all necessary powerline symbols and a large portion of the various nerd font symbols, I can't recommend Cozette[0] enough. Recently the author has began updating and releasing new versions after a hiatus. Also, if you use the otf version of the font instead of the bitmap/otb version you can still get it to look like a pixel perfect bitmap font by setting the font to a specific size in the application, usually size 9 or 9.5 depending on the app or terminal.

[0] https://github.com/slavfox/Cozette
That's true, but it's not entirely true.

I've seen countless migrations to React from other equally capable frameworks because "everybody uses React" it must be the best tool!

I've seen companies picking up Python because if you wanna do ML you gotta use Python, right?

Anybody can write Python, right?

Except now you have a Python codebase written by people that pretend to know Python, while they really don't know how to write a maintainable software program in any language, it just happens that Python is the only language they "know".

And now everything sucks, but at least it's trendy, right?

Programming languages are tools, if you hire someone competent in Ocaml but force them to use Java because "it's more maintainable" you now have two problems.

IMO
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