skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting, what proportion are you using to determine swap size? For example 1x RAM, 2x RAM, etc.
When in doubt, sort the configuration values alphabetically
> >The BSD License Means Companies Don't Contribute Back

> the real issue here is with license purists and the philosophy of open source. BSD gifts companies with an easier path to turning your work into a cloistered and proprietary part of their code, whereas GPL at least makes an effort to keep them honest about their appropriations. plenty of companies to date still do skirt the GPL though. ultimately whether or not a company gives back to an OS community is a matter of business prerogative and not entirely license.

But there's a difference between "giving back to the community" and "releasing your changes under the GPL". The only actual requirement is that the modified source code be 1) made available to the people to whom you give binaries, and 2) it be licensed GPL. There is no requirement even to send the code to the upstream project; and there's certainly no requirement to engage with the maintainer / review process to get the new code into suitable shape that the upstream project actually wants to take it.

Without engaging with the maintainers of the upstream project, there is virtually no chance that anything other than trivial patches will be in an upstreamable state in the vendor's patchqueue; and so virtually no chance that someone receiving the GPL'd patches could actually apply them upstream without doing a significant amount of work to make them so. I know of very few cases where people have the appetite to that sort of work.

So the result is that, in practice, companies contribute back to GPL-licensed projects for the same reason they contribute back to BSD-licensed projects: because they want to be able to pull in new code from the upstream, and having to rebase a patchqueue every time they want new upstream features is more expensive than engaging with the maintainers to contribute their own code back.

The main difference is in the small cases where there is enough community interest to actually take a company's internal patches and do the work of cleaning them up to get them upstream.
For spending money ostentatiously, making sure everyone knows how much she spent, and not understanding when they won't or can't do the same.
Not sure this is about privacy as much as just not being bothered. Anecdotally, people I know who are not tech-oriented at all tweak their notification settings pretty regularly. It's nearly a necessity these days to avoid being overwhelmed. As OP said, they want to notify you much more than you want to be notified.
Now you're shifting the goal posts after I provided sources that the US gov does not use BSD.

Microsoft Server systems for government use have been audited and have strict controls for implementation, hardening, securing, etc.

They're probably more secure than BSD.
It's 2022 and if you still can't see the good in systemd then it's you choosing ignorance.

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo -- The tragedy of systemd.

Where Benno Rice (FreeBSD Committer / FreeBSD Core member) explains the value of something like systemd.
For fixed price and fixed performance you can use bare metal providers with unmetered bandwidth generally tier 2 vendors offer that.

At $20 bare metal is not easily possible, the lowest prices I have seen are usually 40-50 and above. Howveve you can get a VPS with unmetered bandwidth and no other costs at your price range [1]. The price is still fixed some performance variances may be there, at $20 minor variances are unavoidable.

[1] https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/compare/
It looks like those files are marked as public. Does it trigger for you on files not being shared?
Space Force Just Launched Satellites Capable of 'Inspecting' Enemy Satellites
Why? You can figure out someone’s SSN if you know where they’re from and what their birthday is. They’re highly predictable - particularly given that you’ll often see the last four digits as the “obfuscated” version in lists etc, and the first three are state, and the next two are based on when they were born. Put the two together, and job done. They’re effectively public data. The fact that they’re used as a magic security number/identifier is frankly mind-boggling.

Citation: https://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10975
Indeed, consider how one navigates a "memory palace" going into a specific room (=folder) !
Can you cite? I'm interested in this idea but it's unclear where he discusses meditation as such, rather than things like consciousness and introspection?
Yeah I'm the one who needs to calm down....

>But it sounds like an excuse to brag about the harsh weather one runs in, and those damned kids and their video games or something. Here, I'll one-up you: I regularly ran in snow and sub-zero (Fahrenheit, bitches) temperatures when I lived in Indiana.

It took one little remark about your overpriced lame electronic exercise equipment to get you all worked up. Thanks for the laugh, and letting me know how insecure you are about it.
To be honest I would consider "X went to Y at time Z" to be a sensitive information. Whether you care about privacy or not, that's another issue
Google claimed a copyright violation and did a takedown. That's what DMCA counter-notices are for. They phrased it in other terms, but ask a lawyer if that matters.
Do you order anything besides coffee? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but why would you wait 13 minutes for someone to drop off $1 of distinctly average coffee?

(I say this as someone who has ordered McDonald's through DoorDash before.)
I think it's a coincidence. Sybil is reference to the book / movie about multiple personality disorder. Both deal with multiple personality systems.
Quantum Computing Hello World
Glancing over it, it seems pretty hard to draw any useful conclusions from it.

I would expect that those most at risk from covid are the most likely to get vaccinated for it. I would expect the effect to get smaller once you start controlling for age (which they did not).

Granted, I don't think it's an unreasonable expectation. But I wouldn't state it as being supported by that paper.
I like this approach: building a simple folder interface on top of a more flexible tag system, which can always be accessed when necessary. I think many systems would benefit from it.

There are tradeoffs, though: a fair bit of overhead for each heavily nested item. And you would want some support for ensuring the integrity of the hierarchies (i.e. someone accidentally removes "tree" from the tag set of "apple").
Web3 is not above criticism. Advocates want it to dominate the internet, monetary systems and ultimately our lives. It should be criticised within an inch of its life, and if it's all that you say it is then it should rise above it.
Exactly! Write the best, simplest, acceptable working code you can, and then put a comment in there that if someone has an issue with it, they are welcome to improve it...

if (.1 + .1 != .2):
reason = "we can't have nice things."
Wow, between this and Malloy , there's a lot of great ideas.

It'd be great if ideas from sparql/datalog/datomic were also picked up. It's easier to write recursive queries.
“Government and military servers” tend to run Windows ;-) SELinux looks nice on paper - another box to check - but it’s just another mitigation later, not something that can be considered “trusted”.
I'll celebrate for a whole week whenever the US converts to the metric system. I hope I'll still be young enough to handle it.
It's like that after every major rapper's album release though. Anywho Billboard's algorithm aren't fully representative of what people actually care about, it's some weird flawed algorithm- but Spotify's Top 50 USA is probably a more accurate method as it sorts by listening count. I bet in 2 weeks, 13 of those 15 songs are going to fall off the top 100. I agree though, I don't care about Gunna either (haha).
I never said that. I said Bitcoin won't go down to $0. Bugs have and will be found and squashed.
Old Music Is Killing New Music (Why It's a Good Thing)
Google sued by DC and three states for ‘deceptive’ Android location tracking
I'd say having both of them increases the chance of them being Hindu swastikas. The nazis used only a single direction.
I think I managed to get Cloudflare set up, let's hope that works
Multiple people have said they prefer not getting surprise PDFs. Could you elaborate on why? It's never something I've ever thought about. PDFs open in the browser now for most people, so it seems like it shouldn't make much difference?
And it still wasn't big enough to put sufficient sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere to have a noticeable cooling effect. Too bad :(

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60088413
If by two-tier, you refer to the prosecution (i.e. drafting) vs. litigation (i.e. lawsuit) tiers, there is a clear separation in the industry. I do prosecution exclusively, and can't answer if it is inherently desirable (inasmuch as any career path is desirable), but I don't find litigation appealing. On the litigation side of the world, you might find a faster-paced, higher-stressed, higher-compensated environment which has more significant deadlines and "stakes" especially when involved in court proceedings. However, I would also imagine that a more flexible career path is tied to such work since litigation can translate broadly to other lawyerly endeavors vs. the more specialized prosecution.

But, to stress again, the work is inherently different on prosecution vs. litigation. Prosecution also has its work deadlines, but these can be managed more flexibly in practice. Prosecution is a joy for someone like me who prefers to largely work independently (once you learn your craft sufficiently), attempt a good work-life balance, learn new tech every day, apply that knowledge to writing about it in a very specialized manner, compartmentalize tasks (each patent can have its own mental silo), and still do some limited "lawyerly" work dealing with examiners at patent office to attempt to get patents allowed in light of the prior art. Plus, depending on the firm and your ambition, you can branch into anything - litigation, licensing, contracts, etc.

I should note that you don't need to pass the patent bar exam to do litigation, but you would eventually need that for prosecution (agent, attorney). So some say that it can be harder to switch from litigation to prosecution because of that barrier.
Technically any creative work you author is copyrighted, so your comment was copyrighted anyway.

Whether or not large tech companies will punish people for infringing upon your copyright is yet to be determined.
I assume it's a reference to the ancient Greek prophetesses[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl
I didn't try that. I marked them public because I assumed that's what triggers the scan.
That comment sounds like it applies to watching TV (or any other form of escapism) as much as meditation.
> Then the eruptions causes a drop in temperature due to the ash in the atmosphere?

Interesting, this prompted me to read[1] into how it works and made me interested in why we don't pump sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to help cool down the planet and buy us more time to transition off of CO2/CH4 emitting processes? Is it cost prohibitive? We already cloud seed pretty often so there's infrastructure in place for a large scale operation?

[1] https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-climate-works/how-v...
Mrs Baerbock absolutely wants to weaponize Nord Stream 2 this way, but it is unlikely to happen if operator of the pipeline will fulfill the regulatory requirements. Anyway there are ways to create a lot of pain for Russia without touching gas topic.
SQL has effectively failed, as a standard, despite it's ubiquity. It's literally being aged out, which makes for opportunities for PRQL, etc to fill pragmatic gaps.

eg the lack of default column aliasing from joins

SELECT
A.id AS A__id,
A.name AS A__name,
B.id AS B__id,
B.name AS B__name
FROM A
LEFT JOIN B
ON A.other_id = B.other_id

When you could have:

SELECT
A.*,
B.*
FORMAT (TABLE__)
FROM A
LEFT JOIN B
ON A.other_id = B.other_id
> Also recently read about Magellan's voyage and it is remarkable that they made it.

Well, they didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan#Voyage

> Of the 270 men who left with the expedition, only 18 or 19 survivors returned.

A 93% mortality rate really isn't a success by any metric. Losing 80% of your ships is nothing to be proud of either.
Big Agriculture Schools Face Increasing Donor Conflicts of Interest
That is huge! As someone who originally came from tropical country, volcano eruption sucks even if you live far away from it. The dust, the earthquake, tsunami warnings, etc. hopefully everyone who is affected is doing fine
They do nothing anymore. The OS will not give them any CPU time until they are resumed. No network communication, no redrawing of windows. If they started subprocesses, those might still run; I don't know the details about that.
Apple did it and succeeded? In MacOS you can use tags and/or folders to organize files, and there is an OS-wide search index (Spotlight).
Thanks for sharing but I wasn't really trying to debate whether I do or do not find utility in these. I do and I'm fine using them. I'm also aware of the alternatives, I use Apple maps from time to time, I use DDG on occasion. Neither is of consequence to the premise in my original post.
Isn't it a bit odd that the type signature "contains" the uncompressed data? There would seem to be no point in compressing data this way.

I suppose laziness makes it somewhat more practical. The concrete type may only exist conceptually.

It's also unclear what constraint is being enforced. Proving that all run-length encodings decompress to some list doesn't seem interesting? This is just as true of your encoding. I suppose it would be more interesting if not every possible value of the compressed data structure were valid, such as if it contained a cached checksum that needed to match the data. We could show that all compress functions compute the checksum correctly.

But couldn't do that by having a single compress function and proving that it works? Why have more than one?

Also, it seems like verifying such a checksum would be weird. In the presence of data corruption, you would have a proof that that checksum matches the data, but by computing the checksum you could show that it doesn't match the data.

Apparently type-checking proofs aren't really about concretely showing that data is consistent? If you rely on the proof, you assume correct data rather than verifying it. A sufficiently smart compiler might optimize away your attempted verification?
you can do that with tags tho.
I think of it as the difference between "what do we need patent to protect our IP" and "ok, what else can we patent?!?"
California school kids must get Covid vaccine under new bill
The systemd-nspawn man page includes the following:

> Like all other systemd-nspawn features, this is not a security feature and provides protection against accidental destructive operations only

Doesn't seem very similar to jails to me.
> There is no Mozilla infrastructure. All their servers run in AWS.

Yes I know - that would be a good place to start though don't you think?
TL;DR: I got a big bill from my cloud provider, so I used more cloud provider features, to make sure I know before I get the bill; isn't my cloud provider great?
I find it very strange that a computer can boot up with some ports open, that's beyond stupid. Nevertheless all my modems have had the default config to block all incoming requests.

Imagine a port open connected to a program with admin priviles which sole purpose is to give people full access to your computer and your desktop. Hidden in plain sight, maybe?
This is cool! I love it.

Few notes:

1) SQL also allows you to define windowing reusably, like this

select
sum(blah) over window_abc,
avg(blah) over window_abc
from table_xyz
window window_abc as (partition by x order by y)

so that second example could be written somewhat less repetitively but it wouldn't change the whole point.

2) Sadly my main pain point with SQL for ETL is not possible to solve with a transpiler - SQL has exactly one target so doing things like "I want these records to go to a table A and those records go to table B" is not possible with one query.

3) It would be cool to see how this does typically annoying and repetitive cases from analytics / data warehousing world. I'm thinking like SCD1/2 implementation. But I don't even know if mutation is there yet.

4) I would recommend investing in one canonical formatter, like Go has. So that there isn't infinite number of ways the same query could be formatted for people to argue over preference.

EDIT:

5) Since this seems to be focused on analytics (by the choice of queries and Snowflake in examples), I want to highlight that someone suggested to use TPC-H (or TPC-DS) queries as a benchmark. It does sound like a good idea.
Sure, maybe they will and maybe they won't. Personally, I'll be happy to pay for it and have considered over the last few months a migration plan away to a paid subscription. It's just not on top of my todo list. If Google started asking me to pay, I'd pay because they have provided this service and its pretty darn good if you ask me. How much I'd pay is an open question.
I'm writing a book about Why We Play, and I've been a fan of your blog (though only as a reader) for some time now. Number 3 on your list speaks to me very deeply, especially now that I've been working on this project daily for well over a year.

I intend to start publishing essays and excerpts soon - I'll be sure to share them back to you if you're interested. Thank you for your time and energy in the blog.

----

The first three lines of my draft, if you're curious: ;)

I've played a game called RuneScape for 5000 hours and I don't know why.

Was all that time wasted?

Was any of the experience valuable?

And for this not to seem like shameless self-promotion, I am always interested in an individual's answer to this question. Comprehensive or not, to anyone reading this: why do you play?
I don't know if the arguments are valid or not because I'm not an expert and I have read only the first paragraphs. The red flag to me is the article being structured to convey emotion instead of informing.
There is an entire sector of malware and spam distribution that makes use of this feature.

I allow sites like webmail services and web based chat apps to send notifications.
When human mind descended to materialism.

This can only be realized through experience. One can read and "know" a lot about this topic but this knowledge can only be regurgitated.
It’s not about providing any real security, it’s about ticking checkboxes. So yes, if the checklist says “Linux and Windows are ok” then you can mark the checkbox, and with FreeBSD you couldn’t.
My dentist said I couldn't leave the SSN field blank so I filled in 867-53-0909.
tuples are unfortunately terrible. Its almost always better to make another type with the fields you need than use a tuple.
Also remember that Darwin, the kernel used in macOS, is in part derived from FreeBSD.
I like to think about my spending in terms of whether or not something is an simply an expense or is a "capital expenditure". The latter is anything that will

* enable an activity that I think I want to be able to do
* reduce my long term expenses
* improve my health
* be something that brings me immediate and almost tangible joy

Any of the above are enough to move it into the "capital expenditure" realm, and more than one is excellent.

Expenses covers spending like food (mostly, though some kinds of cooking and eating fit into the above list), utilities, recurrent spending that I could imagine just doing without (Netflix), most conversations with professionals. It also covers equipment with a defined and relatively short life - a new bike is capital expenditure, but the tires are just expenses. A new water heater is capital expenditure (since presumably the old one has issues), but the energy to run it is an expense. A new pair of gloves that keep my hands toasty at 12k ft (4000m) in winter is a capital expenditure, but the laundry soap to clean them, and the nitrile gloves I use when doing oil changes are just expenses.

Obviously, many things fall between the cracks, but in general I find it useful to try to sort spending into these two categories before deciding on its value.
The author of the article believes what they say. The bad faith is that they mostly use rhetorical tricks and cherry picked data to make their point.
In the sense that a staircase can be used to seat guests. Folders are not like tags, tags are like flat folders. Folders are better at separating, tags are better at mixing.
I thought it was the Artistic License which required modifications to be distributed in patch form? The FSF does seem to have considered the original Artistic License to be non-free.

I think there was some disagreement about some version of the Apache License too, but I think it was about whether it was GPL-compatible, not about whether it was free.
Pretty weird that Google would be scanning files for copyright infringement in the first place, it's supposed to be a Drive not the enforcement arm of the copyright mafia.
> Hang your shingle out by publishing negative (vote-against) attestations of vulnerable versions of open source software and positive attestations (e.g. code-review) of the versions that mitigated the issues they disclosed.

So you're imagining that a bunch of people trying to break into security work will do work for free in hopes of gaining potential employers'/clients' trust?

And you're imagining that this ecosystem of attestations will be seeded by a bunch of people looking to gain the community's trust?

So who audits the auditors? And how long do you expect it to take to get a critical mass of people reviewing code who have gained the community's trust to be reviewing enough packages to solve open source supply chain security?
Curious if this will cause a slight cooling of the earth's air temperature due to increased volcanic particles in the air. I had no idea of the size of this eruption and it looks absolutely enormous based on this article. It didn't mention how many metric tons were ejected into the atmosphere

Here is an article saying that after a eruption the air temperature rapidly cools for a while. Lets hope this doesn't wreck crop production.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/volcanoes-cooled-...
> I would inevitably find a thread on the FreeBSD forums

That was your mistake. With BSDs, you use the man pages ;-)
They are only partially operating under emergency use. I'd assume that's for co-horts that weren't the first priority.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...

> Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals.

So the Pfizer is approved, not just in an emergency fashion. Full approval is for the 2 doses for ages 16+, while emergency approval is for the 3rd dose or ages 12-16.
Vivado is a lesser problem than waiting 2 weeks for another assembled printed circuit board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lskpNmUl8yQ

"Dooooes radio ring a bell?" and the crowd all laughs.