skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being an upstream maintainer is incredibly under-appreciated. It’s an unfathomably hard, and somewhat thankless, job (at least if you do it well). A friend of mine was in a cab with Ted Ts’o at a conference and he was reviewing patches on his phone to keep up with the workload (or maybe he was bored who knows).

Despite incredible effort from maintainers, getting necessary changes into Linux can take forever. In the subsystem I depend on (and occasionally contribute to directly) it’s kinda assumed it will take at least a year (probably two) for any substantial project to get merged. This continuously disappoints PMs and Leadership. A lot of people, understandably, chafe against this lack of agility.

OTOH, I’ve been on the other side of kernel bugs. Most recently, a memory arithmetic bug was causing corruption, and took my team at least an engineer year to track down. This makes me quite sympathetic to maintainers demands for quality.

I’ve also been on the other side of the calibration discussions where Open Source work goes under appreciated. The irony never stops (“They won’t merge our patches!” “Are you having your engineers review theirs?”). That and the raw pipeline issues for maintainers (it takes a lot of experience to be a maintainer, which implies spending a lot of a bright engineer’s time on reviewing and contributing upstream to things unrelated to immediate priorities).
Reading a biography mostly informed me about the lack of general empathy, remorse, sympathy. Only regret came forward a little (and only once).

> be crazy enough to bet it all

Anyone who doesn't suffer any real consequences. Having parents with a lot of money makes it not matter all that much.

As for the other bad decisions; it doesn't really show much positive except maybe persistence, but persistence in a vacuum is not a good thing. In a way, it mostly read like "a skewed mind made a bunch of bets and got lucky". Perhaps mostly an example of survivorship bias in a business sense.

Now, if we go back to the hoarding; it's not about when someone didn't hoard, it's about the here and now. I'm pretty sure we can find a period of time where Gates or Kamprad didn't do any hoarding, or not the hoarding we'd expect. But concentration of anything doesn't really happen by accident, and wherever we see it now, we can assume it was intentional.

There are of course also examples of people on their death bed realising their hoard doesn't really matter anymore and they might give most or all of it away. But that doesn't mean the hoarding never happened. It doesn't turn someone into a genius or a saint. When such things happen, we might consider it commendable, but that doesn't mean history disappears.

In a way it works not like a balance or a sum but more like a ratchet; it's about the degree to which someone hoarded stuff and how they acted with their hoard (doesn't have to be money, can be property or secrets or power or knowledge etc).
Original post from 9 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42942854

Src
https://github.com/ksze/PeerAuth
I think it’s safe to say that corporations are sensitive to political costs which is both a reason to adopt DEI and a reason to abandon DEI.

I wish corporations were efficient money making machines, but there is so much agency cost with management having different intensives to stock holders which provides fertile ground for politicking and other such emergent behaviors that needlessly tarnish office life.
I worked for a company that sold high-end imaging equipment.

They had distribution networks, authorized to carry their brand.

But there were also “gray market” distributors, that would do things like resell foreign market gear, or devices that were separated from sales promotion bundles.

These were our brand, but the company would not support them. No hardware fixes (unless paid), no firmware upgrades, and no marketing support.

Often, the savings were minimal. It was expensive gear; even at a discount.
They are largely there to enforce the law and investigate transgressions of it. If you've ever reported a theft lately you'd know that they are not resourced - at least around here - to put any priority on protecting anyone's property. They have their hands full dealing with domestics and drug and alcohol related offending.
>because DEI has become a politically charged term that pretty much invites conflict and toxicity at this point

I agree with this on its face, but it seems an incredibly passive tone. DEI didn't just "become a politically charged term". It was deliberately made so.

And the term doesn't just "invite conflict and toxicity". There are toxic people who are using the principles themselves as a point of conflict.

Not being pedantic here. Maybe it's what you meant to say. Or maybe not and you don't agree. Either way, I point it out because it reminds me of the media headlines these days. I find that, among media reporting that purports to be "objective", there's a very odd passive tone, as if these unprecedented things are just happening.

And, that introduces a pretty hard bias.
From my experience, 40 years ago PhD used to be hard to do and meant that the person who had it was smart.
These days the only thing it indicates is that the person spent many years at university.
It doesn't even originate in the US, mate.
Considering the timing (January 24th), it's probably related to Apple's switch from a SHA-1 signing certificate to a new SHA-256 one: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3138-h...

It's possible their receipt validation code doesn't support SHA-256, and they can't/won't update it. Maybe the source code was lost, the team was disbanded, or they're just not bringing in enough iOS IAP revenue to justify the engineering cost.
The word is "unravelling", and as you don't know how to spell it I'd venture you know even less to point out all the corruption and money leakage that's been found. Or please, do try so we can have a laugh.
I notice you pointedly neglect to even touch on my anecdotal experience that says that it's a trainable skill.

And yes, he's 100% implying that this boy practiced to get there. He's not saying that he's going to be able to train any random person to get there with an online course, but he's 100% saying that this boy practiced the skill.
If you're feeling like your doctor/PCP is a gatekeeper, get a new one, seriously. Maybe I've been lucky, but my doctors have always written scripts for anything I ask for, assuming there's some validity to my need, and (though I've never tried) we're not talking about controlled substances.

Diagnostic test... they may not know what to do with the results, but I doubt you'll get pushback for a script. Insurance may give you a hard time, however, so assume you're going out of pocket.
Noone's asking the maintainers to make the project happen.

It is the maintainers job to determine whether a project should be pursued at all.

If a maintainer says "yes I'd be happy to accept feature X", and then simply rejects all PRs implementing X without giving feedback then they're a bad maintainer!

That's essentially what's happening here due to the fact that the kernel maintainers have not come to a coherent decision regarding R4L.
John Resig on Using Cloudflare Workers
The original comment by gnabgib was flagged after a while, so I will post it again for those who come later. I think this comment will be flagged soon. I don’t know why some people don’t want this news to spread.

Two previous discussions were flagged as well:

[1] Apple Resumes Advertising on X | 44 points by greyadept 23 hours ago | 49 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032112

[2] Apple is once again advertising on X, more than a year after stopping all ads | 76 points by ksec 1 day ago | 38 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031493
Oddly enough if you access & summarise all the research on vaccines you're going to appear pro-vaccine.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-s... doesn't mention HN directly, but will give you a sense of his POV (copy-and-paste the link or you'll get the behavior described up-thread)
Typhoid famously caused silent infections in some people, so no, not necessarily. Just because it's asymptomatic for the original infected doesn't mean it'll stay that way if they transmit it to others.

Plus one of the most common ways for a zoonotic strain of a disease to become human-transmissible is to end up mixing around in the same body as an existing human-transmissible strain of that disease.
> Author says "those rules" without actually citing anything.

The author actually go into how universities make their own rule that potentially affects teachers and students doing research with their own time and resources.
Why is it a concern if there’s no symptoms?

We know diseases spread through the population constantly.
The M1 reset expectations for laptop battery life and performance, and the result has been great for all platforms.
>Noone's asking the maintainers to make the project happen.

If you're asking them to accept your code then yes, you' are asking them to support your project forever.

If you weren't sending them patches then they couldn't block you. Since you are they can.

Again, it's not their job to support this great idea you have that means they have to change how they've done everything for the last 30 years.
Exactly. Before Elon it was an echo chamber for the previous administration (policy wise) like Reddit and other social media companies. Try to say anything against DEI on Reddit and you get immediately suspended(at least on the technology subreddit)
The article doesn't, but it provides the context on why the warning does, which is why it is there.

That should answer your question: "What’s with the warning on the top?"

Perhaps you expected a list of all sorts of interactions between this website and that website, but I doubt the project volunteers kept a ledger to share that with you and that in itself would incite reverse brigading which solves nothing.
You don't really learn how to learn in a masters or undergraduate. You learn how to consume information, but not how to research new things, validate those and defend it to others in a rigorous way.

Whether it's worth the investment depends on ones goals in life.
People with medical problems don't receive Medicare and Medicaid, the impoverished and senior citizens do.

Say what you will, but if the only American citizens who receive aid from their country are senior citizens, veterans, and the impoverished, then the rest are gonna be mad when they see billions of their hard earned taxes flying out to other countries instead of spent on them. That just is what it is. Especially as the economic prospects for an average working man in the US gets worse and worse every year
The whole community shows symptoms of organizational sabotage.

https://files.catbox.moe/u6rold.png
At the of the day, the question is: Is this a good thing society?
Oh, they grepped for a lot of "bad words". Like bias:

OPTOGEL PROTEOMICS: UNBIASED SUBCELLULAR PROTEOMICS POWERED BY PHOTOREACTIONS IN HYDROGEL

Won't somebody think of the woke .. proteins?
Insanity. The US cultural revolution is going to do the same to American scientific progress as it did to the Chinese.
Thats interesting.

I had booked domain named after my daughter who is 5 now and was thinking what would happen if I die before she turns to a age where she can start using it.

This wordpress solution might solve the renewal problem in that case as it is 10 years currently max.
> Do you think that Rowan Atkinson was ...

No, but Ben Elton certainly was when he created and wrote it, even before hiring Atkinson to star in it . . .

When I last spoke to him Elton didn't view the entire UK Police force with disdain but he absolutely felt it was riddled with clusters of bigoted and violent police. You can see that in his other works such as the The Young Ones and various novels.
>the software will have to be rewritten from scratch

Would you even be able to trust the hardware anymore? If it's already compromised then it's safer to assume it goes deep (firmware).
There was a long period of time where LibreOffice Writer had severe performance regressions due to a rework of graphics handling that removed most of the image caching. If you had a slower system or a high DPI / Retina display it could be agonizingly slow due to constantly rescaling images on the CPU. It started sometime in either 3.x or 4.x and didn't get resolved until mid ~7.x. I stayed on an old version for a long time.
I half-expected that comment to end with "sorry, wrong window"
I'm not a left winger, and I generally respect the police, but everybody I've met with a "thin blue line" American flag decal or sticker has been a total asshole. It's not just hatred of the police. Connotations change over time, and the general connotation of "the thin blue line" in the US at the moment is unabashed support of far-right authoritarianism.
Is it incessant? I would expect the average Asahi Linux user to know how to search GitHub issues and just upvote a request for a certain feature. If many people are creating noise that isn't great, however understanding which functionalities people want most is helpful for deciding priorities.
This is an interesting idea, and indeed such an approach to providing privacy has been formalized to different degrees and varying levels of success (eg. [1][2]).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2136
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03458

Unfortunately, as described, such a solution would only satisfy a somewhat meaningless notion of privacy. Specifically, the embeddings by definition contain potentially private information about the user, revealing things like "I'm asking about birds" to use your example. Even though it might "compress" the query in a slightly lossy way, it would still reveal a great deal of information about the query.

A true solution to this problem would require something like differential privacy and adding noise to the embeddings. However, the noise required would (likely) end up destroying too much information from the embedding to preserve accuracy of the LLM.
The actual paper says it’s just a part of the brain opposed to the whole organ.
You're confusing moderation with site policy, but hey, on brand for a Musk supporter.
Most likely due to the inflammatory warning text on the page.
> Debian doesn't just ship upstream updates every 30 minutes.

This grossly understates the problem.

The debian xscreensaver package was years old, and contained bugs related to screen locking which were an actual security issue.

Your comment is in very poor taste.
It’s often cited that Twitter/X lost 80% of its value since Musk took over. Is this possible to confirm? If it’s private now, are there ways to judge its success or estimate its value?
These words have the meaning you're implying to at least some people in the USA, it was new to me.

I don't know his full biography, seems to be Chinese born and went to MIT, but he signs off 'Cheers', I think it's a reasonable possibility that he doesn't mean whatever politically charged US meaning it has by it.
I assumed it was the professors/faculty that bring cultural continuity to a school.
I’ve learnt absolute pitch for a single note - F3

I was learning to sing for the first time at age 20. Learning Michael Buble’s cover of the jazz standard Fever with my singing teacher at the time Mohini

It took about an hour of reinforcing the first 5-10 seconds of the start of the song on loop

That was almost 10 years ago - still nail that specific pitch every time

From there I can usually sing that scale correctly without reference, but it’s all anchored on the initial interval of F3 down to D#3

Accurate relative ear is more important anyway, I don’t sing anymore but if I was learning I’d focus on intervals and scales/modes over anything else

———

Another helpful interval is just nailing the octave jump, an example is Chet Baker’s You Don’t Know What Love Is
GEOMETRIC ASPECTS OF ISOPERIMETRIC AND SOBOLEV-TYPE INEQUALITIES

Suspected to be flagged for the trigger word "inequality."
Well, you're saying two distinct things there. A thing can certainly be genuine, but not beneficial, on principle or in execution.

But, I think it's more the former for a lot of these companies. I sincerely wonder what the true impact of these "rollbacks" is, beyond removing verbiage from some websites/company literature.
You could say the same about doing a startup. They pay is shit, grueling hours and 90% of them don't amount to anything meaningful.

Doesn't mean that it's not worth it for most. Some people just want to do science. Or startups.
This is basically what democratic strategist James Carville has been telling people. I think this is the likely outcome - if Trump does not crash and burn, which is a big if, there will be at least 12 years of a reactionary government which is plenty of time to change the culture. In general most people believe what they’re told to believe, tell them to believe something else and they will.
If hypocrisy made a bit of difference and if shame had any power any more, the 'free speech warrior' contingent banning research based on a list of illegal words would be the end of this particular political moment. Alas, they seem to revel in it.
I haven’t tried Timefold but did try a ton of solvers (local and web) a few years ago when trying to optimize MRP schedule. One of the hardest parts was converting my business logic into constraints, especially date based calculations.

Instead of explicit constraints, is there a way to provide a calculation that can be minmaxed? If every order has a due date, can I say +/- 3 days = 0, 7 early = 9999 (not allowed), 7+ days late = (days late)^2?

Please email me (in profile) if you want to discuss.
He’s talking about implementing a security state to keep the plebs in line and using our data for his own ends. I have no idea why, he’s a sick man.

I don’t think empathizing with a Larry Ellison and Jeff Bezos is going to get me anywhere. Normal people? Sure, I’ll be a giver.
IIRC Linus has been in favor conditioned on the agreement of the respective subsystem maintainers. Meaning, he’s not deciding over their heads. And introduction of Rust can be handled differently from subsystem to subsystem.
I'm not too concerned, as it doesn't spread very well from human-to-human (R0 << 1).
Because that same line of questioning (Marcan being Lina) has been entertained by said right-wing forum, ergo this should be purged to avoid giving them "juice".
Interesting. I prefer having the date at the start so that it can be sorted more easily. If I need to look for a specific name I just use search / filter. Ideally the OS would make it easier to see different projections of a file system though. You could probably hack together something with FUSE so both <NAME>.<DATE> and <DATE>.<NAME> variants are usable.

I've recently been thinking how to organize a large digital library of music and audiobooks and would appreciate thoughts on what convention to adopt. It seems like a lot of systems assume there's usually one single artist or author, but that doesn't match reality.
> It's pretty obvious it wasn't malice that led them to not respond quickly.

So stupidity then.

Seems legit.
If you can get Kagi to agree to it, definitely write a blog post on their behalf, please.
you can make mechanically sympathetic linked lists with low constant factors as long as you avoid pointers
So you would then you end up with three Python3 installations.

And if you install from the website it doesn’t override the path. So will still be using the Apple or Homebrew one.
> From the discussion here, it seems that HN turns out to be a very money centric place.

It’s not HN. It’s the fact that doing PHD is only a reasonable choice if you either want to get into academia long term or you come from wealth. (Historically science and research was a rich people thing, and only became accessible once student loans were more accessible)

I genuinely considered doing PhD after my Masters degree. No matter what I couldn’t justify spending 5 more years, borrowing more money on top of my tens of thousands of student loans just to stay afloat. I would still be living roommates well into my 30s, have no prospects when it came to dating, rely on student loans and my parents to support me, while literally any job I did would put me in a better position. Like I could bartend full time and I’d be making more money than the stipend. All of this in the hopes of what? That I’d have a dissertation in super specialized field, not necessarily the one I want in because I won’t have the advisor I need and the one I have only wants me to do very specific things they want. And that dissertation may or may not be relevant to the industry or even academia in a year or two.

And if you decide after your PhD, that you’ll join the industry, you’ve lost out on 5 years of compounded growth financially and personally. It’s not like a PhD gets you more money in 95% of the jobs.

Realistically, the only people with me who ended up committing to doing this were people who had no other prospects or were looking for a full time role in academia.
The danger is when LLMs start to outperform humans on many tasks (which they already have), claiming that LLMs are stochastic parrots could be seen to imply that less intelligent people are also no better than stochastic parrots.
Unsure how declaring intentions to be deliberately racist and sexist is considered 'principled'.
P.S.: Messing with the issue-tracker (and bringing up unpleasant memories of desperately trying to find a workaround in their source-code) I find that the two linked issue about this anti-feature rank are both in the top-15 most-voted open issues. (Rank 14 and 9, respectively.)

https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=status:open%20votecount...

(Vote count column not displayed by default.)
I remember the announcement for Orion but I haven't followed closely at all - any support for container proxies like in Firefox? Can't lose that feature
Supposedly: https://books.google.com/books/about/?id=s1pLvAEACAAJ
Identifying A440 vs A415 and knowing baroque temperaments are completely different skills. A415 is about a half step below A440, but without absolute pitch you can't really tell. Tuning is mostly about counting the beat frequency between overtones of two notes in an interval, and then you sort of learn the "color" of the exact interval. Things like equal tempered fifths and the Werckmeister F4-A4 third become pretty recognizable when you know them.
It's always been "we want to have the right to drown out your speech" - it hasn't flipped.
> Police don’t serve the community

Whom do they serve?
This is probably more a physics/CS question than a biological one, but how far off are we from having physics simulators good enough to try the types of experiments MIT did with the eye but for entire organisms? Presuming that will one-day be possible (i.e. the simulation takes earth's physics as inputs, and spits out organisms vaguely similar to those found on earth), then we could presumably enter the physics of exoplanets and find out what their creatures might be like.
How does this differ from traditional asymmetric crypto?
The flu is fun because if you are infected with 2 strains at the same time, the virus genomes mix every which way to see which combination works the best against you. So any level of infection in a species that easily transmits to humans is risky.
The Linux kernel was that way for a while, years ago.
As far as I can tell it probably is American, all the earliest mentions of it on Wikipedia are American.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_blue_line
The kernel is continuously changing (which IMHO is also an issue), so keeping a fork requires a lot of work to continuously adapt to those changes.

This is why forks made for specific devices are seldom updated for more than a few months (or a couple of years if you're very lucky).