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> You'd think, in the spirit of open source, these multi-billion dollar companies--like Apple and Google and Amazon--would recognize the danger and immediately divert the best engineers they had to help this team identify and mitigate the problems.

Google doesn't even use log4j. What are you talking about? The spirit of open source does not dictate that the richest companies automatically shoulder the burden of maintenance of projects they do not even use. Google already has initiatives like Summer of Code that help open source projects it does not use, and I think it's perfectly fine to draw the line there.

> divert the best engineers they had

So the lessons from the mythical man-month are forgotten here. At this point I don't think adding more manpower helps.
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‘Maskne’ Might Not Be Acne at All
I'm doing that this year!

I'm cheating a bit by putting the languages I know at the end, but it's still a really fun challenge. Doesn't really help that it's exam week though
Amazon warehouse collapses after tornado leaves at least two dead
My regards, and this is purely out of curiosity so feel free to ignore if I'm overstepping -- how are you "not the same person?" Can you tell what you "should" be like? Did you previously enjoy certain things that you don't anymore?

Hoping you get better.
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How can I use my keyboard in VR?

There are only 2 options:

Either I see the keyboard through some sort of passthrough, in which case the entire VR experience is basically just an overly expensive desktop background.

Or the keyboard is replaced by a VR representation, which relies on the device knowing where the keyboard is. Obviously, that will require a special keyboard with IR markers, so good bye custom keyboard, good bye laptop keyboard.

Oh, and I cannot see my hand movements on it, which kinda defeats the purpose of seeing the keyboard, because current hand tracking technology cannot keep up.

Neither of these offer me any benefit over the cheaper, easier and functional technology that I am using right now.
The article is factually incorrect. For instance, the Russian journalist did not mention Silicon Valley companies nor did he intend to mean that social networks are promoting authoritarianism and waging war.

Instead, he referred multiple times to the mainstream media in Russia that is tightly controlled by the state and is acting as a propaganda device that serves short-term goals of the ruling elite, promoting war in Ukraine and anti-western sentiments along the way.

NPR took pretext of an event to present an opinion.
Great, so do I, and we can disagree all day.
Don’t worry, he can edit it ;-)
Yeah, but credit suisse is in a position to bankroll a (hopefully locked down) device for work purposes. They’re a huge business.
My argument is not closed source. My argument is that "just fork it" does not magically fix all problems. Closed source makes this worse but "fork it" is no answer either.

I believe I made this very clear on my very first comment.
If everyone paid 15$ (+-Netflix sub price in my country) to single favorite FOSS project they use, we'd be in a much better place. In case of libraries/frameworks - they should be founded by companies.
dang. I wish every platform had a dang. The world would be a much better place.
It seems like you haven't quite got the concept of open source.

Making something open source is about granting freedoms for users of that thing. One of those freedoms is usually "you owe nothing and can do with it what you wish: sell it, fork it, modify it" in exchange for "the author provides no guarantees and is not liable for this software".

Open source authors that expect some benefactor to appear and sprinkle money so that they can quit their day job and work on their hobby full time are, for lack of a better term, delusional.

The default is that no one will use your thing, no one will contribute, no one will fund you, etc.

Anything beyond that is a fluke.
This site has a fairly complete index of studies on ivermectin and COVID-19. I don't have any confidence in their editorial content, but it's useful strictly as an index. I recommend reading the previous studies before commenting on this one; note that some other studies have been retracted, or are suspected to be fraudulent.

https://c19ivermectin.com/

The NIH is currently sponsoring a larger randomized controlled trial which should give us more conclusive data on whether or not ivermectin is actually effective.

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi...
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How can you have integrity of the justice system if you don't have integrity of facts?

What you call torture, is the isolation and lack-of-stimulus we put all prisoners through. This treatment is not specific to harass Assange, but Assange and his team wants special treatment specific to Assange.

Assange is different in many ways. A journalist normally does not convince a suicidal army recruit in Iraq to search the local network for more encrypted files he and his team can crack themselves. The only country to reward such behavior with a medal would maybe be Russia.
Why are you angry? Scamming was not invented in China, it comes built in in human nature. There are Shamans in South America, and Witch doctors in Africa.
On the other hand, I expect that most people running log4j didn't know about or want this feature. What should they pay for something they don't want?

Maybe it makes more sense to fund system-wide efforts?
When I was a kid I had training wheels.

It was terrible, it took me forever to learn how to ride because I was focused on turning and pedaling.

My kids on their balance bikes just learned how to propel themselves forward by pushing off then balancing as long as they could.

Learning the easy part of propel yourself forward with pedals was easy then.
Nice one, sifting through the results will be my night time entertainment. Thank you! Solid looks pretty cool too, I'm eyeing it at the moment.
تخريم وتكسير الخرسانة بالرياض جميع اعمال الهدم والتكسير
I think that the open part of the metaverse needs to be code and legal before aestetic. Mostly because skin mesh animation is the hardest part of game dev. because of pipeline costs and code complexity.

The Roblox solution looks terrible; bloated, bug prone and poor performing. I manage 2000 non-instanced characters (each with a interchangeable weapon) on a 1050Ti.

I'm going with royalty free assets that I happen to have a custom agreement to because of an early adopter advantage which allows me to redistribute them not only in a game but also with my open-source engine.

The content being editable creates headaches and decreases improvement of technology since more time is wasted on supporting more and more data for zero gameplay benefit.

Physics is the gameplay changer for MMO games, and it needs to be implemented in the game and not in some external library to be efficient/specialized enough to scale in a MMO setting.
to the best of my knowledge it was discovered via a minecraft exploit and I don't think minecraft players are generally the "responsible disclosure" kinda people.
This is cool.

I also like https://www.solarham.net/
From https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-80...
QUOTE:
The answer, horribly, is 'Not only is it possible, but it's medically proven.' Debate on the subject raged ever since Charlotte Corday -- the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat -- was guillotined in 1793. The executioner's assistant, Francois le Gros, lifted her head by the hair, and slapped it on both cheeks. Eyewitnesses reported that the face took on an angry expression, and the cheeks visibly flushed. The debate was started -- if guillotining didn't produce instant death, then it wasn't a 'quick and merciful end', as promised by the post-Enlightenment revolutionaries. In 1794, German surgeon Dr S. T. Sommering argued in the Parisian newspapers that 'consciousness of feeling may persist [in a severed head] even if blood circulation is terminated, partial or weak [...] the head's strongest sensation would be the after-pain felt in the neck.' French doctors argued that he was confusing nervous spasms with sensory perceptions and voluntary motion. Little research was conducted on the subject, however, until the turn of the twentieth century, when another French doctor, Beaurieux, was permitted to make an investigation of a severed head, of a criminal called Languille, immediately after guillotining: "Here is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the decapitated man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about 4 or 6 seconds. I waited several seconds longer. The spasmodic movements ceased. The face relaxed, the lids half-closed in the eyeballs, leaving only the white of the conjunctiva visible, exactly as in the dying whom we have occasion to see every day [...] It was then that I called in a strong, sharp, voice: 'Languille!' I then saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contraction -- I insist advisedly on this pecularity -- but with an even movement, quite distinct and normal, such as happens in everyday life, with people awakened or torn from their thoughts. Next, Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. I was not, then, dealing with a vague dull look, without any expression that can be observed any day in dying people to whom one speaks: I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me." By 1956, further research had proved, in the words of governemntal advisers Drs Piedelievre and Fournier, that "death [by decapitation] is not instantaneous [...] every vital element survives [...it is] a savage vivisection, followed by a premature burial." The French government abolished execution by decapitation in 1977.
Would it be helpful if they streamed the contribution?
The campaign in Singapore to wipe out 'dialects' is also interesting, as it existed outside the ROC or PRC. Presumably done for ethnic/nation building reasons, to have a dominant chinese majority speaking one language - otherwise you'd have some chinese communities being similar or size or even smaller than the Tamil or Malay speakers.

Though I've also read recently that after stamping out non-Mandarin languages, even proficiency in Mandarin is now fallen behind, as English is more practical.
I would indeed prefer to be without such a step. Thanks for the info!
Rhymes with Touché.
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They can, indirectly. The side effects of their actions and deep knowledge on individuals can be used for violence or ill will.
I'm a native Mandarin speaker. I don't know why you need to stress "taught" or "believe" so much. I'm not taught by anyone, nor believe that dialects are mostly similar. I experienced it. Most dialects, Cantonese included, use the same Chinese character system. In writing, we would use either simplified or traditional character sets. Note I'm only talking about modern communication.

> could be read and understood without deep knowledge of the actual language and world of the writer, resulting in, at best, comical translations

I don't know who you are talking about. I wouldn't say that at all. Chinese students would spent 1/3 of their high school studying complex ancient Chinese languages (文言文). Nobody would say it's not deep knowledge - it's so damn hard.
I don't think that throwing a bunch of new people in a project will necessarily make dealing with the problem (code, doc, communication issues) less stressful for the maintainers involved.

Quite the opposite.

The only way you can make this be less stressful for the maintainers is for them to delegate it all to some corporation to handle and go shopping, but this effectively means they are no longer the maintainers of that project.

Surely there is the possibility that these million dollars are just donated to the maintainers as compensation for a prompt resolution, but I don't think that is so easy to pull off. CTO may have some staffing but paying large sums to external contractors on a short notice is not something easy to pull off in any large organization.

No. I think this whole line of reasoning doesn't resonate much with reality.
Ok, trying to clarify/narrow down what the usual undergrad/grad level of depth is with what's provided, so reply doesn't seem a bit crude/off-topic.

It's hard to do recommendations without defining/clarifying what the usual undergrad/grad level of depth is.

aka expected backround / prior knowledge / certifications to have to understand the next step beyond the usual / area of knowledge

aka telecommunications, engineering, science, information systems, technical certification such as cisco CCNA.

As presented, looking for non-survey/non-introductory books.

As presented, this spans the full range of technology degrees/technology applications.

Just staying within one of the disciplines below would
a bit broad aka multi course catelog for just a specific area of study.

some areas the above fall under: electrical enginering, computer engineering, systems engeineering, computer scientist, data scientist, information systems, data science, technical certifications for things such as Cisco and/or telecommunications)

Suggestions per information/scope defined:

1) Take a look at what some of the freely available online classes use for resources.

https://www.edx.org/

https://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

https://oedb.org/open/

2) suggested information available for learning/earning a certification

3) university pages containing course outlines/sylabus pages would help.

Ultimate bent would be to feed what's found into a websearch to find related things.
> Currently the final versions in the hands authorized sellers

"Authorized sellers" is redundant. In a free market, everyone is authorized to sell every legal good at all times. I think the author meant "licensed manufacturers".
I maintain a lot of open source projects, but IMO this is not the right approach. I think the [anecdote from @jbk](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29524103) about ffmpeg illustrates that.

I also don't think the problem it solves gives the greatest benefit for the amount of work required. I think making it easier for companies to pay open source contributors is the right approach. For any company that builds software, finding and paying the open source projects they use is a massive amount of work and there's nothing that helps with that. If there was much less friction to paying maintainers, more companies would do it.

I would love to see a tool that, given a pool of money, will collect dependencies from projects in any language (extensible), find the authors (git commit history, etc.), find where they accept contributions (extensible), and pay them, based on both computed and hand crafted weights.
That seems to be an oft-repeated argument, that may or may not be true but is certainly believed by some and is therefore relevant here. I don't personally care.
The US is not an appropriate comparison in terms of geographical diversity. The US + Canada is unusually homogenous because of its unique and very modern history.

Instead, compare China to Europe, which is far more rich and complex. Heck, there may be more dialects and recognized languages in Italy alone than in the large majority of China.
Honestly I was debating jQuery but I have used it in the past and was interested in something different. Alpine looks pretty much like what I need but still looking up everything in this post. :)
This time, the committee made a decent choice. They basically took two not very well known but highly respectable journalists and shunned them from premature death by giving them the prize.
I had a similar interaction with a doctor once. It was a regular check-up and at the end I asked him: "Is it possible that my eyesight gets worse as I get older because of my particular condition?". He replied with "What makes you think that?". He was offended that I'd dare to ask a question, as if I was not supposed to speak at all.
The problems get a lot harder so it would be interesting to see if you can get all the way through with this approach.
> 2% annual inflation over a 40 year career amounts to 40% less earnings. Inflation is theft. Bitcoin fixes this.

Try living with deflation. To paraphrase Churchill: an inflationary regime is the worst monetary system, except for all the others that have been tried.

> Bitcoin is honest sound money with a fixed inflation policy forever that cannot be manipulated by any central actors.

Not being able to manipulate the money system is bad thing, as the Great Depression showed. Bitcoin is basically a digital form of gold, which was moved away from for good reasons:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...

* https://archive.md/FWKcL
Crunchbase has a 'Pre-Seed' filter on their company database. A quick glance shows these Pre Seed cos have still raised money though, so not sure if they're capturing the stage you're after. IndieHackers, maybe?
> The extremely elaborate system dictating which of usually several, often many syllabary characters that sound identical must be used in writing a word in Mandarin (very commonly mistaken for ideographic writing) cannot work for the other sinitic languages.

It can work pretty much the same way, Mandarin isn't special in that regard. The only difference is that the conventions for Mandarin are widely known and have been established for a long time.

But there was a time when writing in Mandarin was a radical new idea and people were unsure how to write many things, e.g. whether to use 的, 底 or 之 for the genitive particle de.

Most Sinitic languages are at a similar stage now: traditionally educated people know the pronunciations of many characters that are used e.g. in Classical Chinese poetry, but some frequently used words may not have any corresponding characters assigned, so people substitute others based on meaning and/or pronunciation, or make up new ones (this is easier when handwriting).

Most likely it will also stay that way for most people, since the benefits of literacy in Sinitic languages other than Mandarin aren't all that great, but there are also quite a few enthusiasts trying to make writing their mother tongues a thing, e.g. by developing input methods: https://hanhngiox.net/
That's fine and all, but let's make it a public good from the start. Seems to me that allowing spooks and billionaires to do whatever the fuck they want up there is a bad, bad idea.

And let's keep track of what we're missing out on: How much environmental damage is being done? How many science teachers annual salaries did they just burn?

Is it not a little repugnant to be working towards space tourism for billionaires, at great expense to our natural resources and biosphere? And this while millions die from hunger for the lack of a tenth of Bezos' fortune (built on exploitation and union busting, among other fuckery).

Good things may come of this yet, but think of the opportunity cost. Good things come from science teachers too. Good things come from global stability and not letting hungry people die. Do a cost/benefit analysis while leaving these fuckers enormous egos out of the equation, and explain to me how it makes any fucking sense at all.
I've maintained a popular opensource project for the last 7 years. I finally relented and started a GitHub sponsors profile earlier this year. For a long time I had the same mentality about donations so when I set up my sponsors profile I made it super clear that I wasn't offering any perks for sponsorship. If someone chooses to donate, it's purely as a thanks for my work. Currently I make $6 a month so that covers a couple of coffees.

In terms of fairness to past contributors, I put the sponsorship on my personal GitHub account and not on the repo for the project I maintain.
I get what you are saying, but long lived, highly destructive tornados like this one are downright terrifying.

Initial reports are that this tornado was three-quarters of a mile wide and traveled more than two hundred miles. That’s 150 square miles of near total devastation.
Yeah. Since I use neovim mostly, that doesn't bother me. But other editors could benefit from it.
Google voice was vulnerable to this, so I think this means they use log4j somewhere but I'm not an expert.
You're attempting to change the subject and I'm not going to take the bait. Mass censorship is far bigger than any one political issue.

As per your second paragraph, no, that is false. They made a small ad buy to sow bipartisan political division. Please stop promoting misinformation.
Glass houses: https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:lodash@4.17.15 / http://ariagno.com/spotify/
>> "capturing errors with breadcrumbs"

Forgive my ignorance, but what is this?

How would I set up my server that handles API requests to use it?
If this was a bigger project, something along those lines would have been better most likely. In this case I need to just get it done and end users are not going to look at it as a website, it's more of an app that you install and use yourself in this scenario.
Stimulus looks pretty cool as well, thanks for pitching it!
The responses to this are largely going to be "people who agree with me."

They'll be dressed up in all kinds of rationalizations, but that's the truth of it.

Until we can get people to be honest about that, there's nowhere for this conversation to go.
CI tests are nice, unlimited use of GitHub Actions for public repos
The problem is that in the prediction of such extreme weather, in the middle of a really strong storm, this people should be told to get the fuck off, go home and take care of their families for a few hours instead to become martyrs of packaging. Why they were risking their lives working at night in a notoriously unsafe type of building, with a warning of tornado hitting the area?

This was the wrong decision also for Amazon. Taking at least the bare minimum reasonable measures to protect their employees would have saved the company a lot of money and lawyers time. Nobody could have stopped the warehouse destruction in any case but the recovering would have been much more simple and much faster.
Press freedom groups have warned Assange's prosecution is a grave threat
Thanks for the tip! I'll try to figure out if something similar is happening on either of the machines I'm using. That's a bummer that an in-place update function would be allocating behind the scenes...
If changing your existence requires brain injury, I'd argue the opposite: It's hard not easy.

It's not like we can sell brain injuries at every corner store to change peoples' lives.
The Unix philosophy is unhelpful dogma at this point - something that people use to blindly criticise software that they've arbitrarily decided does "too much" even if it makes perfect sense for that software to do more than one "thing". SystemD comes to mind.

Maybe it made sense at the time.
I've also seen it basterdize into running a loop for a monte carlo sim instead of using a VBA macro. Genius and stupid all at the same time.
A book, "Deadly Voyager" by James Lawrence Powell, available on Kindle, summarizes.

http://deadlyvoyager.net/

Beware that the wikipedia page on the topic is "curated" by a retired busybody professor who reverts corrections that do not favor his bias.
One of the key criticisms of "The Algorithm" (I wouldn't really phrase it this way) is that "sharing" as we understand it today shouldn't exist. There shouldn't be a quick little button I can press on Facebook to put an article into 500 people's news feeds.