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This is open source. The traditional remedy to some disagreement over project managemeng is to fork. If everyone agrees the fork wins, if the CoC people are in the right the fork dies. The great thing about free software is you can vote with your feet when it comes to management issues.
Yumeko is a site I found that caters to fans of retro games like DOS, Flash, and classic arcade titles. It features online emulators, so you can play these games right in your browser. No downloads or installations are required, which is a nice touch.

The game library is quite small yet, but offering some well-known classics and lesser-known gems. The interface is simple and intuitive, making it easy to jump into a game quickly.

If you're interested in retro gaming, check it out: https://yumeko.one/
This article gives much better context than the previous discussion (which devolved into an usual disagreement over CoC process), but the discussion itself didn't improve much. It turns out that there were several actual reports about the person in question and even quantative observations [1], regardless of one's actual intents, and that should be enough to alarm anyone (but please let me know if this is rather just a regular phenomenon). This "suspension" should really be read as: please, please chill down, because you may well have been just overheated enough to harm without realizing.

[1] https://discuss.python.org/t/python-s-supportive-and-welcomi...
Unpopular opinion: Flash allowed to create web experience that is extremely difficult to do with modern technologies.
It was a code of conduct discussion wrt to enforcement and changes to bylaws to enable that. The actual threads

https://discuss.python.org/t/for-your-consideration-proposed...

And then a public warning

https://discuss.python.org/t/inclusive-communications-expect...
It's hilariously on point that this doesn't mention how any of this would in any way benefit the business. Don't get me wrong, I've spent my time in "architecture" to the point where I was part of the team which defined the national strategy for IT architecture in Denmark called Rammearkitekturen. I've yet to see any form of measured example where architectural work actually provided a measurable net benefit for an organisation though. In my experience it doesn't even lead to better code bases, because focusing too much on it tends to make people over complicate things to a ridiculous degree. Spending time both reviewing and retrospectiving and whatever other bloated pseudo-work terms various well paid consultants will come up with seems like a further waste of time. In my book.

Disclaimer: I think architects are pseudo-jobbers who should be replaced by a competent employee who will do actual work. Even in operations I tend to think having full time architects is a gigantic waste of resources. To me, full time architects are only ever going to fill the same role HR management advisors do, which is to make bad managers feel better about the decisions they take.
Sneaky isn't it? Its give for the first "word" then three for the second.
Sorry, did NATO invade Ukraine?

No, Ukrainians are dying because Russia invaded Ukraine. Stop playing the victim all the time.
I found this article today and thought it was very interesting.
> Use your imaginator.

I use my imagination. The most likely answer is that there was a check and they haven't noticed because they were out and about.
So basically “import kill-whitey.py” in an example bit of pseudo code is perfectly acceptable?
Is there already a good way to link an ADR Architectural Decision Record with Threat Modeling primitives and considerations?

"Because component_a doesn't support OAuth", "Because component_b doesn't supported signed cookies"

Threat Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_model

GH topic: threat-modeling:
https://github.com/topics/threat-modeling

Real and hypothetical architectural
security issues can be linked to CWE Common Weakness Enumeration URLs.

SBOM tools help to inventory components and versions in an existing architecture and to JOIN with vuln databases that publish in
OSV OpenSSF Vulnerability Format, which is useful for CloudFuzz, too.
Should a potential contributor get involved with Python development, or keep a safe distance? The decision isn't obvious, and conflicts of this kind place a lot of weight on the wrong side of the scale.
Where alpha is a requirement, this is very clever.

However, in many cases, the requirement isn't actually transparency, the requirement is a video background seamless with the containing page.

With most pages white or off-white, this can be done at production. Even responsive dark mode can be done in production if two clips are made.

We used this simpler technique for borderless animated video (e.g., a streaming video spokesperson walking across your e-commerce product page) 20 years ago.

The optical illusion of borderless transparency works so surprisingly well it's unbelievable it's not seen widely.
And that quote is also a direct misrepresentation, if you look at the link, he merely said “back in the days when [SNL] was genuinely funny”, near the context of someone talking about that clip.

Genuinely appears to be someone bad-faith fabricating reasons to get the result they’ve already decided on.
Exactly zero of that is AI. You've described an extremely basic control loop with a few simple sensors, a lookup table, and some if-then statements.
Firstly, I'm coming at this from the pint of view of standard feed forward NNs, rather than spiking neural networks, so apologies in advance if I am way off-base.

By global activation limit, I assume you mean the total sum of neuron activation during one forward pass? So halving it would strongly encourage sparsity? How do you enforce the reduced limit? Just put it in the loss function? Or does the spiking nature allow you to "sparsify" the spiking by raising a threshold?

Very very interesting stuff. I'm working with differential evolution, and incorporate correlation measures between candidates to (try to) allow for multiple divergent solutions, and it also feels fairly off the beaten track, compared to mainstream AI. But who cares, let's enjoy the dark forest! :-)
Title of a best seller by a respectable author, Nassim Taleb
This is basically Ant-Man and the Wasp, "Do you guys just put the word quantum in front of everything?".
I hate that they publish 10 points without link to the original offences.

I'm sorry, I won't trust any of these committees / foundations / council without direct evidence, you can't just make up these charges and remove all the context...

I mean you can, but based on my experience, I'll just assume the council is full of do-nothing political activists who infiltrated a developer project and found a way to be petty and feel all important and mighty.

First point, he started a discussion in a discussion? What else, he commented on a RFC?
Indeed they are - look at the EXIT turorial, just awesome…!!!!

I gotta reserve a weekend to go through this vast and humoristisk set of knowledge.

Thank you Robert!
That's exactly why CoC exists in these projects. Everyone has to follow the same rules (at least supposedly).

There are lots of discussions about Linus criticizing others in a very harsh, sometimes offensive way, I won't repeat them here. One thing I 100% agree with is that this would create an unhealthy environment that discourages participation and contribution. Many projects adopted CoC exactly because they saw what could happen without one.
As if software is the same thing as a new biological species.

I am just so bored of reading bullshit like this.

If you really believe this then you need to level up your level of education and learning. It is not good.
When I'm standing in a store, they absolutely know what the tax is going to be at the register.

Online, I admit it's harder... But they still need to figure it out at checkout. I would be fine without a disclaimer that until the shopper's location is specified, the final price can't be calculated, but if they're logged in and it's set, it should show it.

Everyone quotes pre-tax pricing because it tricks people into thinking the prices are lower than they are, just like $9.99 feels cheaper than $10.00 when you're making a quick judgement, even though that penny is inconsequential. And it's why gas stations add the additional 9 behind it, making the actual difference even more pointless.
I think it is a great development, the US decided to export jobs to other countries to pay less its own workers, so it fits well that now it has no expertise to build its war machines.
But it wasn't an AI Metaverse!
PNMA
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Some keyboards like the “Class 80” have a solenoid or a beeper built in that you can turn on to your liking
Then you're not very competent. For every folder there is a file called test. Who would have guessed?
Online Sports Betting Hurts Consumers
I bet there are lots of pips(?) arguing against the use of hyphens in module names.
Gregory P. Smith writes: “If a conduct-related enforcement action happens and that ‘ruins their career,’ the responsibility for that lies entirely on them. It was their behavior that got them there in the first place.” That puts far too much faith in the process, assuming that the Python Steering Council (of which he is a member) will never get something wrong.

‘Enforcement actions’ (what a bureaucratic way to refer to punishment!) do not just ‘happen’: they are imposed by people. They may be just or unjust; the people may be fair or biased; the process may be due or undue.

Mr. Smith should reflect on the fact that his name is indelibly associated with this action, and consider that if others happen to think ill of his actions and remarks in this affair then the responsibility for that lies entirely with him: it is his behaviour he may be judged for.
This punchline is so good I wonder if you and the grandparent poster coordinated this. Bravo.
I agree with the spirit of your argument but maybe not the villains you've chosen. Given legislative capture is absolutely a thing I think your criticism is more effectively pointed at the individuals and organizations responsible for funding reelection campaigns for the politicians that aren't obviously servicing the needs of their notional constituency.
> I recognize that there are some who think that way. It makes me sad. But that attitude as phrased is entirely backwards. If a conduct related enforcement action happens and that “ruins their career”, the responsibility for that lies entirely on them. It was their behavior that got them there in the first place.

That seems obviously incorrect. The outcome is a combination of their behavior, the text of the CoC, and the subjective interpretation of the CoC and the behavior (by the people doing the enforcement). Any of these could be "wrong".

I gather that the person making this comment was one of the people doing the enforcement. Obviously they'd think that in any specific case, the CoC was reasonable and their reading of it and their interpretation of the behavior was correct. If they didn't think that, they would have reached a different outcome.

But this isn't a statement about a specific case. It's a statement about generalities. And it's pretty disturbing that the people running the show refuse to acknowledge the possibility of errors even on a theoretical level.
I asked for direct quotes, but got turned down with general corp speak.
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Musk is only really rich because he owned Tesla and SpaceX and those were only successful because they produced better stuff and transformed their industries. The system is kind of working as intended. Do you think things would be better if Musk never happened and we had relied on GM and Boeing?
After spending time abroad you begin to realize just how insane these commercials are. Only the US and like Australia allow these weird doctor-bypass medical advice/brainwashing sessions.
Ahhhh....2nd and 4th amendments. As an EU people, I get it now...freedom.
I guess I've been watching too many 1st Amendment auditors.
Super interesting! Congrats on the launch.

The use of parquet files and S3 as the main data storage seems interesting, but can you elaborate on how telemetry is optimized for frequent data inserts, since S3 only allows replacing a full file and data cannot be appended directly to it?

Does it mean you use some sort of partitions with many files under the hood or a local buffer (memory/file/db) to make batch updates every x seconds on S3 for better performance?

Would be happy to give it a try!
The US has already forgotten how to build. This process has happened for 30 years, a full generation.
I recently downloaded an "avif" thinking that I was downloading a gif. A little annoyed, I started poking around at it with ffmpeg and discovered that the file contained two video streams. I extracted both individually with -c copy into individual mkv's so I could play them individually.

The first video was the content I desired, the second video was solid white but for the same length of time as the first video. I was honestly a little flummoxed about the white stream for about 15 seconds before it hit me "this must be an alpha channel".

I don't suspect I have ever seen it in action, so I am extremely curious how well alpha channels can possibly turn out with lossy video formats where the result of any given frame is a matter of interpretation? In lossless formats like GIF the borders of objects at any given frame are perfectly defined, but lossy formats, especially ones using discrete cosine transform, where the object ends and background begins is not clear cut.
Flex and Bison are simple enough tools (probably, you never know with GNU stuff) that you should be able to just vendor & compile them as part of the build process if you actually care about reproducible builds.
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clickable title, but then it is an ad for a free API to save CSV
Right, that tragic cautionary tale that is Linux
Definitely not acceptable. For starters, you can’t import a module with hyphens.
It’s trying to highlight a different idea. A robust system can endure damage. An antifragile system grows stronger from damage.
Aren’t you, as a YouTuber, in the same position as many creators that do the same on other mediums? There are people out there who write amazing blog posts but now the traditional advertising world is basically dead and people have to figure out other ways to make it work.

Or they have to accept that what they do is not a full time job but rather a hobby and they need to find other ways to earn a living.

Writing is no longer viable for many. I don’t see why YouTube should be this special case.
> I think we agree Haskell is far too dogmatic about its abstractions when it's impractical to be used as a general-purpose language (because I don't think it's intended as a general-purpose language).

Originally Haskell was designed to be a language providing

> faster communication of new ideas, a stable foundation for real applications development, and a vehicle through which others would be encouraged to use functional languages

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

That doesn't necessarily imply general purpose of course, but today pretty much any language suitable for "real applications development" would be considered as "general purpose", I think. In any case, regardless of what Haskell was originally intended to be, I would say it is a general purpose language (and in fact the best general purpose language).
> I dont see exactly how the differentiability of the architecture matters?

I don't know that classical architectures are infeasible to perturb as noted in other comments. I just think we have a really interesting knob to turn in this specific case that doesn't seem to exist in other architectures.

How would you go about constraining the resource consumption (by up to half!) of a classical ANN while preserving realistic hopes that it will recover between training epochs? And, we are talking real resource reduction here not some academic thing. You can see the difference in task manager. That's actually the primary tool I've been using to determine how to tune the parameters of this scheme.
That might be how you would implement it, are you refusing to concede that Samsung could have implemented it better than your strawman implementation?

What is your standard for intelligence?

My washing machine is already better at doing laundry than I am (even if I was in total control of a machine with identical capabilities), why is that not good enough for you?
Sure but that's not going to work across platforms, right? So not really an apples to apples comparison.
The funny thing is that I had found the hard one but not the easier one.
For fans of the SCP universe, I'd like to recommend "The Lost Room" TV series. It's not related to SCP, but has a very similar feel with the reality distorting room and objects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Room
Elixir gives you tooling to inline inspect
Released Panko-GPT – v0.4.0
Yeah like that'll make any difference. They've had a bean counter in charge for the past 4 years, and another engineer before that who was fired over the 737 Max fiasco.

"CEO changes will continue until morale improves"?
> Even the deadliest plagues didn't kill everyone...

That is logically flawed; the species that were killed off by plagues aren't around to say that. Every species exists in a state of "the deadliest plagues [we've experienced so far] didn't kill everyone". You can say that about literally every threat - we know we have overcome everything thrown at us so far because we are still here. That will continue to be the case for everything that humanity ever faces except for 1 thing (we aren't certain what yet).

But we know that species go extinct from time to time, so the logic that we've overcome things in the past ergo we are safe doesn't make sense for ruling out even many well known threats. Let alone systems that can outplan us; we've never faced inhuman competitors that can strategise more effectively than a human.
The harm is on the copies more so than the copied person.
It's overlooked security issue in the airline industry. Yet I still haven't encountered such data theft stories (I mean personally)
I can find that price by bidding down or calculating it. Retail is no mystery.
Wordpress plug-ins are also a good path for the same reasons. Wordpress is also a ripe marketing channel to small and medium business.
Is it really a problem? Right now I am skint so every time I sub I unsub from someone else. Patreon makes it super easy. It shows how much I spend on who and I can see who was inactive for years.
We don't put PHI in repos, the CI platform has access to the infrastructure to deploy, which means any potential compromise would expose PHI.
It seems like there is a corollary to the paradox of tolerance which causes groups to become so preoccupied with inclusiveness that they become exclusive
No, LGPL has specific requirements for static linking. When your product is usually a Go binary that you can publish as is, using an LGPL library makes it tricky.

And re network service, I don't see the MPL tying the requirement to making changes available to a method of distribution.
And I'll agree with you the day we all decide to pay a monthly fee that is big enough to support various websites and creators.
Just a guess: maybe it depends by which vertical they’re in? Not all channels earn the same so many be there are cases where non-premium users are more valuable than premium ones?
Per-user prices would be way to expensive. Thé self-hosted GitLab instance I manage is used for teaching and research. We don't use it to make money in any sort of way. We don't have the budget to pay for it. If we have to pay in the future we'll just (painfully) switch to another solution.
> Go is basically anti-Haskell. It forces you to be less clever and that's great.

This is a bit of tangent, but I think it's worth pointing out the value in Haskell (at least as far as I see it) is not that it allows you to write "clever" code, but that it allows you to define precise interfaces. I suspect some people like Haskell because they can be "clever", and I suspect to be able to define precise interfaces you have to allow some degree of cleverness (because you need things like higher order functions and higher kinded types), but cleverness is not, in itself, the value of Haskell.