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Maybe I phrased it the wrong way. What attracts me to open source isn't a higher number of contributors / bus factor, but the fact that if the project dies for whatever reason, I, and perhaps some other desperate users, can fork it, port it to newer platforms, fix the gravest bugs etc. If worse comes to worst, I'm not completely locked out. Meanwhile with closed source software, I'm completely realint on the software producer.
I do miss watching Stewart Cheifet.
Is this increased bot activity associated with LLM training?
That's almost the same strategy I used to get a better work/life balance. I created a new user account on my computer and then connecting to services I used for work on it. Switching accounts is a pain (I logged off after using one), so that added enough friction for me. Similar things with social media. I allowed myself to use them, but only through a private tabs. It reduced the urge to visit them.
I’m a subscriber and I’d be happy to read as much of that as you want to write. There’s not that much biographical or technical history coverage of Control Data and Cray other than what’s in the not-very-technical Supermen book and anecdotes form one or two individual engineer memoirs.
ActivityPub Test Suite
An interesting question - how much of a brain needs to be operating for us to say a human is conscious. The legal implications would be very relevant.
>In my experience most regular people first react with "Oh they wouldn't do that", and then after experiencing commercial software for a decade or so eventually realize they all eventually do that.

>From there, one can open a discussion to the solution which is open source.

As long as you keep them away from the apocalyptic discussions about systemd, or pulseaudio, or gnome3 vs gnome 2, or snapd or any of the many other "project has gone in a direction that some people feel very strongly about" kerfluffles that have littered the open source world and lead to many a fork. Or for something bigger than a kerfluffle, you could look at basically anything going on with RedHat / CentOS / Fedora in the past few years. Yes, in theory what happens here is that group B forks from group A and people who preferred A are happy and people who preferred B are also happy. In reality, users suddenly find themselves in the middle of deciding which camp they want to be a part of (especially if the split was over some item they don't care about, like systemd). And if they're really lucky, they'll pick a side that gets continued, ongoing development. If they're not, they pick a side that either gets abandoned by the forkers after their fury cools and the realities of managing the fork set it, or worse they wind up as a small-also-ran, slowly but surely deviating more and more from the "mainline" from which they forked and losing out on all the ancillary benefits that come from being the community de-facto standard/target.

That isn't to say that open source can't have a better degree of protection than proprietary software does. Just that open source by itself is no guarantee, and you might find yourself having to switch software and learn whole new systems just as much as you would if you were using closed source software.

For the absolute vast majority of users who are not developers, open source doesn't mean anything to them because they don't have the knowledge, or the money to deal with the open source software they use making the same arbitrary decisions any other software package might make. Yes, you could take all the source from the last release of CentOS and hire a bunch of developers to keep it going for you... you could also in theory buy all the shares of Microsoft and force them to make windows the way you want it too. The fact that the former is more in the realm of possibility than the latter doesn't make either of them a good plan.

Heck even for developers - if vim decided to start shipping everything you wrote to sketchy AI servers, if Ubuntu decided that all windows will only have maximize buttons and be unclosable without a restart, or if VLC decided to inject ads infront of every locally played video - I may not have the knowledge or skill set to find that and rip it out. Or maybe I just don't have the time because my bills don't get paid by correcting open source projects doing things I find stupid. I can hope other people will do that, but again, now I'm at the mercy of hoping the team of dissatisfied people maintain a fork forever, just like any other uses.
> Compiling proves correctness properties for all executions and all inputs. Compiling with a static type system is like proving a mathematical theorem.

Not even close. Compiling cannot even check if your program computes 2+2 correctly, much less anything more complicated (e.g. calculating tax values for a service provided based on, you guessed it, runtime lookups because taxes can and will change).

Compiling with static typing will indeed check that your functions are called with correct input values (for some value of correct) across your codebase.
Actually I'm more interested in the game board. If a space has (say) 3 mines next to it, then the numeral 3 will appear (as today). However, when I add a flag next to it, then the count should go down to 2 -- i.e. the number is always the number of mines minus the number of flags. It takes a bit of getting used to when first using that mode, but it becomes much quicker after a while as there is no more checking that a cell with a '4' has 4 flags around it, so all the other adjacent cells are safe. The countdown rule means that a cell with 0 in it, all the open adjacent cells are safe (assuming that the flags are in the right place!!).
Well, I wish Apple advocates would stop strawmanning and posting incorrect generalizing accusations.

I care deeply about privacy. That means I trust the browser sandbox a lot more than native apps. There's obviously a reason sites like Twitter and Reddit try to force their native apps on you as soon as you visit their web page on a phone -- it'll allow them to spy more on you.
Search engine results.
And, talking of comedies, over-sized in Upstart Crow. (The play at least, I can't recall if there was the same joke in the TV series - certainly not recurring in their regular costume.)
A part of all psychology diagnoses is that it must both match a definition and negatively impact someone's life. So if you never had to care about what neurotypical people think, then it wouldn't rise to the level of a problem and there's no diagnosis.

You see people care about this stuff because they go to their therapist and say, "boy there are a lot of neurotypical people I have to predict, and being slightly better at reading autistic people doesn't make up for it."
Every grid battery I have ever heard of already only reports that "reduced" amount, which is part of how they get to 5000-6000 cycles. So doing it again would be double counting that.

Note just how big of a difference there is between the cell price of <$150/kWh and the installed price of >$450kWh. Some of that is labor, land, concrete slab, inverters, but a good chunk is excess kWh.
She is extremely popular.

By some estimates, her fan base is about the same as the number of people who voted in the last election.

In a nut shell, the right wing is scared she will endorse a candidate on the left and increase the odds that sanity will prevail.
Developer-users are real users. A tool (such as a piece of software) is not just a toy just because it's targeted towards users that actually have the skillset to make proper use of it. In fact, quite the opposite; the most useful tools (in any domain, not just software) are often quite inaccessible to those without the prerequisite expertise. Commercial products may be heavily incentivized to make themselves appeal to even the most inexperienced users, and obtain a much wider userbase as a result, but how many of those users actually do something useful with that, and is the proportion of such users high enough that it would make sense for FOSS developers to target them, instead of their existing more reliably competent userbase?
This discussion is evidence that some people really liked GEB and other people found it boring or too unfocused. It can't be that many people who bought it just to look cool on a shelf. The people who found it boring should perhaps try to appreciate that sometimes other people can genuinely like things they don't like (and vice versa I guess).

Again, if you do any work with computer algorithms, it's worth checking out TAOCP at the library and skimming the sections relevant to your work. If you might need it as a reference, it's not a bad source to have at hand; I look things up in there maybe a few times a year for the past decade. Some parts are now a bit outdated in this fast-moving field, but it's still the best available survey source about some topics, and there are some nice explanations and a lot of great problems in there. Knuth is a pretty funny writer if you enjoy dry humor.
Yeah, but the memory shouldn't be readable, so it's harder to find the random location to jump to. There's a bit of circular discussion, where Theo/Open BSD devs say they're introducing feature F to reduce an exploit, and people criticize it as being irrelevant because you can do other exploits, but they've already implemented A,B,C,D and E to handle those, and for each of those individual features there's a list of exploits that get around them, but maybe not if all are implemented.

A more rigorous analysis of the security environment as a whole would be useful.
Compile time.

But obviously only for values that are determined within the code.
The general idea is that an exploitable remote code execution bug is some specific circumstances where the processor starts to execute whatever is in some wrong address which can be manipulated by an attacker.

If the bug is successfully exploited, the attacker arranges so that everything is just so that device runs "as if normal" but executes whatever code attacker decided to be executed; but if the bug is triggered accidentally or without a working exploit, then it attempts to execute something random and that results in a kernel panic.

So the way how "malware prevents a kernel panic" is that it's a successful exploit if and only if it manages to ensure that valid (but attacker-controlled) code runs and actually works, and if it instead results in a kernel panic, well, that's not a working malware, unless all the attacker wanted was a denial of service exploit.
The reduction in such litter is a boon in itself. However we can't allow it to distract from the bigger picture, for example with New Zealand :

https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/how-does-new-zealand-pa...

"We were the second-worst country for packaging recyclability. Here in clean, green Aotearoa, 57% of the packaging we assessed wasn’t recyclable in practice. That’s not too bad when compared to Brazil (92%), but we have a lot of room for improvement. Especially when our Aussie cousins beat us by a mile with just 14% of packaging not being recyclable."

A big part of the problem is the commercial conflict of interest, which among other things means that robust data isn't available. For example, if we had year-on-year graphs showing domestic plastic production, consumption, sales, in different regions and industries, for different purposes, we could start to build a true big picture. Instead, the populace is reduced to arbitrarily celebrating visible wins, without really knowing whether we're winning or not.
Is there any other laptop manufacturer that offers generally better support than Apple? I'm asking because I'm genuinely interested.
The "Massacre" and the Aftermath
Is intelligence a product of nature or nurture? Research shows it's both. Genetics play a significant role, accounting for about 50-80% of the variance in intelligence, with environmental factors filling in the rest. This interplay is crucial in understanding the potential and limitations of gene editing for enhancing cognitive abilities.
Well... For me and a lot of people, it's still good enough - it runs MacPorts, Python, I can compile things and so on, but, TBH, I also have a couple Linux boxes lying around on my desk and on the network one hop away from my desk, so the deep hackability side is solved outside the Mac in my case.
[I'm somewhere (though I don't think very far? on the spectrum).] I think the way we go about diagnosing or assigning value to abilities is productive. I for one can if I really set my heart/mind on it, make a good guess why someone I know did something. I rarely do this though--it seems like such a waste of time, when I could just ask them. I also can't stand gossip which is a collective theory of mind.

So I don't see the need for the part "and how we use the states to explain and predict the actions of those other persons." As for the 2nd definition other than finding oneself in awkward situations, e.g. being the last one still at a 'party' not realizing that the host wanted you to leave an hour ago, I haven't really found it to hinder my success. I also don't think it's one thing, black/white, but if I did have to pick one I'd say that the person somehow naturally places their attention on something other than people around them almost all the time starting from a very early age.
Literally pulled it out my arse two hours ago thinking about a tussle
I had with scarface here yesterday over Javascript of all things, and
how I handled it. Trying to figure where I stand on that scale of
reasonableness (or not) and "intellectual curiosity" as our good man
dang frames it in the HN rules. Must use that Voltaire quote now,
thanks.
What an incredible historical resource that website is. Just look at the original Ethernet spec here: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/ethernet/
How to manage your yearly objectives with your manager?
Open source has many times proved that it doesn't prevent stupid changes in for example UI. Looking at Firefox and them making my most loved features of closing tabs multiple times more effort to do... Because some users can't not hit some menu item...

And I guess this is cycle that has already repeated many times.
Isn't that true for any editor with LSP support though, not just VSCode? And I personally consider that to be much better than the alternative solution of re-writing parts of the compiler to a different language to integrate them into the editor directly, like JetBrains does.
While interesting, that is not correlating traffic laws with reduction of accidents generally, it is saying that using short term bursts of “ highly visible enforcement” does. that’s well and good and I suppose perhaps that has been curtailed also due to police staffing shortages, I don’t know that there is any evidence that the pre-pandemic background level of enforcement really had much effect.

And from what I understand the level of accidents we are seeing now is basically on trend with what you would have expected if you just followed the trendline forward from 2019, even if the pandemic never happened.
So well it had to sell to Google because it didn't have a funding model.
It's not a "bug" - I ran `strings /usr/bin/fileproviderctl` on 14.3 and 14.4 and you can clearly see that the commands and their related helptext have been completely removed.
There's also this type of articles where the first half of the article is easily understandable by a layman but then they suddenly drop a lot of jargon and math formulas and you get completely lost.
You're speaking like Apple will get away with their malicious compliance and petulant behavior.

I'm not so sure they will, now that the cat is (finally!) out of the bag.
> a meandering and badly written mess with no point

Yeah, that is just typical for Pulitzer Prize winning books. /s
Social science holds great potential. Where we have a problem is when social scientists overstep their bounds and try to use their latest shaky research results to make recommendations in areas like parenting, management, and public policy. This usually ends up making things worse for those of us who have to live in the real world. Whoops.

Social scientists should know their place and avoid making specific recommendations until they are really, really sure.
The ads significantly impact credibility for a site like this IMHO.
> For instance, if two or more extremophiles evolved together but remained separate species. They might even require one another’s contribution to successfully procreate. And successful procreation might be rare.

> That sort of life, if it evolved to consciousness, would be averse to any form of damaging competition.

Uh. That sounds like us. Our dependence on our mitochondria and chloroplasts to survive as microbial life, it turns out, did not translate into an aversion to war after we grew up as macroscopic life and everybody around us had their own endosymbionts too.

Honestly I think you're going in the wrong direction with this. A crueler world results in crueler people; scarcity begets conflict. Maybe you could technically create peace by simpy isolating everybody in some kind of desert-like environment, but if you want a Nash equilibrium and selection pressures favouring active prosocial cooperation, then I think what our own history of war, domestication, self-domestication, democratization, etc. shows is that you effectively need (amongst other things) an almost post-scarcity environment, where basic physical resources are no longer a constantly urgent limiting factor on life— A techno-utopia with nuclear weapons and additive manufacturing has both much more to gain from cooperation and much more to lose from war than their less fortunate equivalent struggling just to survive.

But then that goes back to my original reply to you: Anybody who evolves through that initial awkward phase of competition in fear of entropy is probably going to have violence as a part of that history, and part of themselves.

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Note that effectively post-scarcity environments do actually appear in nature now and then, and when they do appear, they do sometimes result in apparently utopic, peaceful, and more empathetic societies. E.g. for a particularly stark example, see bonobos versus chimps.

But as with many good things, it seems to usually be highly spacially/socially local, and temporally transient.
> How long before scammers do bulk video calls to parents/grandparent pretending to be the kids saying they are in trouble and need $$$ ASAP.

Unfortunately, this is why we need open access to some deepfake tech. The only way to convince people who are not immersed in tech how convincing deepfakes can be is to sit with them, and create their own deepfakes.

Then memorize and practice security protocols like verbal passwords.
You're confusing typing categories :)

Weak vs. strong typing is orthogonal to static vs. dynamic.

E.g. JS is weak dynamic. Python is strong dynamic. C/C++ are weak static. Haskell, Rust are strong static.

Etc.

And the weak/strong is not binary, it's a spectrum
Paper bags are much heavier than plastic, which means more CO2 emissions when you're shipping them to the stores.
The real quote is more nuanced: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". It's a balance, obviously. I'm happy to have guardrails if they improve non-technical users' safety.
Powering Up with USB PD: Untangling the USB Power Delivery Standards (2021)
But those weren't the primary threat military defense of ~1965-2020 was designed against. (Higher then) Lower, faster, and/or stealthier were the worries.

And aside from the economically-mobilized war that Ukraine is fighting (and Russia is gradually shifting to), it's unclear if capability or cost need to be optimized. For every conflict economically less than that, capability wins.

I expect the FPV quadcopter grenade-on-a-drone solution will be looked back on like the Toyota Hilux tactical -- effective when introduced, but superceded and dominated by specialized systems produced by military industry.
There’s no smooth gradient between data format and Turing complete programming language. Let’s say I want environment conditional logic (such as looking up a map of AMIs to AWS regions), but don’t want to allow arbitrary code execution, or I want to embed the parser inside the service that accepts the config. Those are the niches that HCLs fill.

A programming language that allows you to enable language constructs individually might be interesting (imagine being able to easily turn on list comprehensions but not allow imports or to disable mutation).
The article asserts "A large DNS response must fit into a single TCP packet." but skips the source on that one. I know that's true of UDP but is it really in the standard for TCP?
Satya Nadella's first decade as Microsoft CEO was defined by cloud. What's next?
> You need to visit the Indian-heavy areas of New Jersey, Dallas, Houston, San Jose to get a proper indoctrination into real Indian food

Or... one could just visit India :)
Same. My bag's the size of half a wallet when folded, so it's not really a bother to carry a couple, let alone one. I tend to keep at least a couple in my car's glove box as well.

I'm not sure my plastic usage has decreased though, since I used to recycle the thin plastic bags to line my trash bins. Now I buy oversized white plastic trash bags to line my bins. I just can't wrap my head around e.g. having a bathroom trash bin without a bag protecting it. It feels incredibly gross, though I do know one family that does that. I guess/hope they wash their bins very regularly.
More so when the DRM itself is almost as invasive as the mallware
Does it also plant a trojan in the DB for the next time the DBA attempts to change the schema?
I get why this shit is useful but it really doesn’t respond to the parent comment - you’re still getting runtime checks.
Don't forget that there have been native Linux builds of Microsoft SQL server for a long time - along with (Linux) docker images.
Yep, R1 chip.
Regarding the fundamental mechanisms. This is the view that I subscribe to as well.

It explains "stimming". Repetitive behavior is soothing because its predictable. And it explains things like toe walking - feet are sensitive, and the inability to predict the stimulus of things we might step on is uncomfortable. Folks with autism may have a heightened discomfort with unpredictable sensations.

There is growing evidence that atypical dendrite development in childhood and early adulthood is linked to autism, schizophrenia and epilepsy.

I see autism and schizophrenia on a spectrum of predictive processing failure. Normal folks typically cannot tickle themselves. But folks with schizophrenia can - probably because its difficult for them to predict their internal sensations.
There's also Season 2 of Wolf Hall itself, filming sometime soon. Maybe they'll get the codpieces right this time, but it will be an awesome series regardless.
> That's why after a plane trip across the country, the amazingly high prices for land/real estate seems like it must be a scam.

Why would it? Lots of empty land in faraway places. You can buy an acre of land in the desert in Nevada for like $500. Of course nobody wants to be there, that's why it's cheap.
Bus drivers and line workers are also among the lower fruit for automation. Increasing their price could be what’s needed to push us into a higher-productivity state.
Working 20 % less will cost you 20 % of your living standard, there is no way around that. There may be some jobs where people already effectively only work 4 days and sit around doing nothing for one more day, in those cases you could maintain productivity if the people would squeeze all the work into the 4 days. And that the capitalists would voluntarily eat a 20 % loss seems pretty questionable to me.