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We have used that video as an exercise in how not to achieve change. Assuming everyone is acting in good faith, the presenter missed the opportunity to build consensus before the talk, Tsu unwilling to budge a bit, but most of all the moderator unable to prevent the situation from exploding. This could have been handled much better by each of them.

In contrast to the parent: yes, the presenter says „you don’t have to use rust, we are not forcing you“ but he fails to address the concern that a change they introduce would error downstream and someone else had to clean up afterwards.
I started reading the article, having little background on kernel drama, and ended it thinking to myself, “Jesus, what did this poor guy do to deserve all this hate?”

Then I read the thread you linked and thought, “Oh. That.”

To be clear nobody deserves to be harassed or threatened, but Hector’s messages make it clear he is astoundingly good at making himself into a victim of injustice. When his messages mentioned “cancer” I immediately thought that meant another kernel dev told someone to get cancer or die of cancer or something, which would be completely unacceptable. He was using the word metaphorically to describe the way Rust is slowly making its way into the kernel, like a cancer growing.

How anyone (read: Hector) could think this requires CoC action is baffling to me. Insane language policing.
2% on wealth over a billion, simplify tax code to reduce loopholes, add increasing rates at higher income levels like we used to have. That should help.
As an american, I do not want this! I don't know why a computer guy's opinion on what happens with everybody's shit is more valuable than mine!
Here's my thoughts,

- The "Top CPU Performance to Date" has flatlined, so even if the hypothesis that developing countries are running PassMark is true, it doesn't explain everything.

- The recent failures of high end Intel chips might be a factor.

- This data is after the initial round of developers being replaced by AI and outsourcing.

- PassMark doesn't include AI or ML benchmarks that the next generation hardware prioritizes.

- CPU top clock speeds have been going down for more than a decade now, instead prioritizing the number of cores.

- HPC labs are less likely to use PassMark because of licensing issues whereas free and open source alternatives exist.

- The average consumer doesn't know or care about the difference. Instagram is still limited to around 1000x1000 pixel images and at most 1080p video with 30 fps.

Personally, this signals that PassMark is not a good benchmark because I've seen a significant increases in my applications from recent CPU improvements like with AMD's EPYC offerings.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html

Stallman wants people to say FLOSS to denote free software versus open source software, and my interpretation of this article is that he only deems the GNU licenses to be truly free (libre) software.
100% on wealth over a billion.
The very first paragraph of the article says this and then goes on to say the trick gets the mantissa roughly right too:

> You can multiply two numbers by adding their exponents. So just with the exponent-addition you will be within a factor of 2 of the right result. But this will actually be much better and get within 7.5% of the right answer. Why?
The article mentions Australia, Japan, Brazil and the United Kingdom. Were there any counter-examples where the cost of living was supported and PhDs were doing well?
I did not register to continue the article.
Or strike your channel over baseless claims of infringement. I wish it was only if you used copyrighted material.
Here is what I learned the hard way: the request sounds reasonable. And that doesn’t matter (sucks, I know.)

Here is the only thing that matters in the end (I learned this an even harder way. I really worked like the L4R people approach this and was bitten by counter-examples left, right, and center): The Linux Kernel has to work. This is even more important than knowing why it works. There is gray area and you only move forward by rejecting anything that doesn’t have at least ten years of this kind of backwards compatible commitment. All of it. Wholesale. (And yes, this blatantly and callously disregards many gods efforts sounding like the tenuous and entitled claim "not good enough".)

But it’s the only thing that has a good chance of working.

Saying that gravity is a thing is not the same attitude as liking that everyone is subject to gravity. But hoping that gravity just goes away this once is wishful thinking of the least productive kind.

Rust is not "sufficiently committed" to backwards compatibility. Firstly, too young to know for sure and the burden is solely on "the rust community" here. (Yes, that sucks. Been there.)

Secondly, there were changes (other posters mentioned "Drop") and how cargo is treated that counter indicate this.

Rust can prove all the haters wrong. They will then be even more revered that Linux and Debian. But they have to prove this. That is a time consuming slog. With destructive friction all the way.

This is the way.
He will make NASA an offer they cannot refuse.
> But then marcan told his supportes to f* off unless they commit to supporting his political ideas

As someone not in the know, would you mind elaborating.
Did Deepseek steal anything or use what was made available publicly? I don’t agree that theft took place.
fwiw, i recently had a need for checking the registration date of domains (to find the "age", for reputation purposes), and getting the information from rdap was pretty simple: a few http calls and parsing the response as json. i'll admit i didn't look at implementing whois (since it seems to be on the way out).

it works well, except that some cctlds (eg .io) don't provide an rdap service yet. i think the reason being that icann doesn't authority over cctlds.

i don't know how cctlds are run. i can imagine they would want to provide this service, it seems pretty core to their business. but perhaps there are reasons why rdap is hard for them to implement?

(aside: i'm wondering why the article was posted. it isn't recent, and is light on information).
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Sure he was. I voted for what he's doing right now.
Good point, but maybe a little incomplete. Can you read a contract and tell whether the courts will accept it? No, you need a lawyer for that. Can you look at a bridge or dam and tell how long it will last and under what loads? No, you need an engineer for that. You can, of course, wait for a court to rule on a challenge to a contract and judge how well it was written that way, but by then it's too late, and you've wasted money. Programming can be like that too. You judge a program by throwing it in front of users and accepting the financial (or, worse, human) consequences, but usually it's more economical to hire someone who knows what they're doing.
Thanks, I'll see about Box-PF when trying to get IMU-filtered indoor-localization working (once I hopefully get that far with the UWB firmware [0]). Accounting for clock drift across the "satellites" is going to be "fun", but at least it's both useful in practice and of manageable complexity/scope.

[0]: I'll happily talk about it at 39c3.
Presidents aren't elected through popular votes. He won 312 to 226.
Prior to the new administration I would have pointed out that US CS and engineering Ph.D.s are generally paid with a stipend that's "just enough to live on".

There's even a website: https://csstipendrankings.org/

I disagree a little with their cost of living calculations - they're off in both directions for areas I know reasonably well. Most Ph.D. students can live for something under the MIT living wage calculations if they choose -- transportation costs are overstated for most places (e.g., CMU students get a free regional bus pass; MIT students get subsidized transit passes, etc.). Often the medical costs are subsidized as well -- we cover the full cost of (individual) health insurance for Ph.D. students.

You're not going to be banking much, but in CS, it's OK at many institutions, particularly when you factor in summer internship income.
The US, through the Intel ME software, already got a backdoor in most laptop. Using PRISM, it also had one on most big Saas, and now that it's over, it probably has a similar one we don't know about given Snowden's revelations about xkeyscore and how it works.

It's very likely they also have a backdoor in Apple phone with a gag order, given Apple was part of PRISM and we can't check their proprietary system.

We also know China has backdoors to any software or hardware product you want to sell there.

So it is a problem that the UK is asking for this for us, but from their perspective, they are just catching up with the current horrible state of things.
I really don’t like the UK governments stance on cyber security / counter-terrorism / et al either. In fact, as a UK citizen I’ve actively campaigned against a great many of their policies.

However this “thought police” and “arrested for posting memes” comment that often gets pointed on here is itself a nonsense meme.

What actually happened was people were arrested for instigating riots. This is no different to what happened in the US regarding the Capital Hill riots — people who helped organise it online were arrested too.

The UK has a long history of shitty policies invented to “protect people” but we need to be clear on what’s actually fact and what’s fiction. Otherwise you end up wasting energy protesting against things that are imaginary.
> In the case of pancreatic cancer, it is much more aggressive and you need to catch it early.

It's not clear that the cancers that you would find early with a more sensitive test are those more aggressive cancers.

The pancreatic cancers we find with our current detection (generally after becoming symptomatic) are typically quite aggressive. But are they all the cancers? Likewise, if the cancer is aggressive, it can grow quite a bit between screening intervals and not be found all that early.

(Part of why we think that "finding cancer early" is such a benefit is that because the smaller/earlier cancers we find are less aggressive than the cancers that we first find when they're huge and spread. There is definitely an effect from earlier detection but our estimate of it has been confused by this effect.)

As we've increased cancer screening, we've found that survival rates have gone up, as have survival times after detection... but unfortunately we've often also found that the screening doesn't always reduce the number of people dying of that cancer at a certain age. Instead, you find more cancers, and you find them earlier so more people live to 5 years, even if you've changed nothing. Cancer treatment has gotten better, but most of the benefits we have expected from better cancer screening have not materialized.

Finding pancreatic cancer early sounds good. And it may be able to reduce mortality from pancreatic cancer, but it's not a sure thing.
Why does disliking C++ make it odd that he is open to Rust? C++ is uniquely bad; disliking it doesn’t necessarily mean you only like C.
I found it interesting, because what the writer calls "entitled users" I would call "honest feedback". The features they need may not be what you need. Sure, they are "entitled" in that they are hoping someone else will just hand them what they want, but that's just a human thing.

I'm sorry that it burned him out. But I think it is intrinsic to putting anything in the public sphere that it won't match everyone's hopes/desires/needs, that you will get such feedback, and that you have to find a way to be OK with that. (Or step back from such roles, as the author did.)

People aren't going to change.
> WASM does not run on real hardware.

Here's a compiler from WASM to native code, it can run AoT also not just JIT:

https://cranelift.dev/
"Put all America's data in AI" sounds like this is about training models, but it's not - it's more about RAG:

> "I have to tell [the] AI model as much about my country as I can," Ellison said. "We need to unify all the national data, put it into a database where it's easily consumable by the AI model, and then ask whatever question you like," he said. "That's the missing link."

(Really it's about encouraging governments to buy a whole lot more Oracle licenses.)

Given how much of the world's information infrastructure isn't even digitized yet, this seems more like that pattern where you get executives excited about "AI" just so you can migrate off paper records!
This contract was signed in December, during the Biden administration.
Should our inability to unanimously agree on something prevent us from doing anything? No. Let’s start somewhere. We can adjust if we need.
It all started with Alan Turing, and let's not forget to put some blame on Charles Babbage and even Ada Lovelace who started it all. After all, anything deflecting blame from the beloved tech leader and his beloved leader is more than welcome.
Got to keep the cookie jar open.
My understanding from afar is that a Rust dev wanted to interact with C code in a way that the C maintainer didn't like. This led to the C dev saying that while he likes Rust, he believes multi-language codebases are cancer and would stonewall all Rust code that touches his code.

Marcan watched it unfold on the mailing list wanted Linus to step in and force the C dev to play nice. Since nothing happened, he went to social media and lashed out as a last resort. That's when Linus finally chimed in and pretty much said "you might be right, but this isn't the way to handle things".
But who is going to want to work hard if they could only ever possibly earn a billion dollars? /s

Edit: Added an obviously needed sarcasm tag.
Are you saying that PCs do not usually have the ability to plug into a monitor, to charge, and to connect to a USB hub for the rest of your devices from a single USB-C port?

You guys still plug three cables each time you sit at a desk?
The "thin blue line" is a term that typically refers to the concept of the police as the line between law-and-order and chaos in society.[1] The "blue" in "thin blue line" refers to the blue color of the uniforms of many police departments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_blue_line
The Insomniac Writers Guide to Not Sleeping
Hit and miss. Good for North America, horrible compared to Europe. Where these are located, it's a bit of a train desert, but the bus system is pretty good. There are three lines within short walking distance, and they go to pretty good destinations, and trains.

But on the other end, there's still street parking, and it's plentiful. I'd say Portland is a good 1-car city, if you're a family. Lot's of stuff is one bus away, but you definitely get into situations where some appointment is 1:30 away by bus, 20 minutes by car, so it's nice to have options. If I was a bachelor, I'd be fine with no car, and using a bike or cab when needed.
5 CFR Part 351 specifically allows RIFs due to budget cuts, reorgs, or lack of work. Though the RIFs have to be done with certain considerations. Ultimately it is allowed for some reasons, and it's really up to the courts to decide if those are the real reasons for it happening.
A difference of a few thousand people in a few specific states.
Fine by me, a billion is an obscene amount of wealth. I think a smaller percentage is more likely to be passed. Maybe 1% over 100 million 10% over a billion. Too many fools think they might be billionaires someday while the billionaires keep siphoning off wealth. Speedrunning it now that we have the oligarchs in charge in the US.
Some >100% of the median income/wealth. Perhaps 1000%. Progressive taxing up to the decided-upon cutoff, eventually taxing 100% at said cutoff.
Or the more darwinistic view: anything you pay access for, you can get gated off from.

Its quite difficult to ban someone from a public park, especially when they can just put on a new hat.

Its really easy to ban someone from a private park. Even if they do put on a new hat, when they get belligerent again you just revoke the renewal of their access pass.
> I hope this version will let me open a file from within LibreOffice directly, without granting full disk access (Mac)

I'm currently, for no better reason than that I haven't upgraded, running LibreOffice 24.8.0.3 on macOS Sequoia. I haven't given it FDA (checked the list of apps with FDA permissions, and it's not there), but just tried opening a few files from within the app, and had no issues.
> When US can't compete, they have to blackmail/steal/sanction to rescue their failed corporations. The same stealing accusation they level at China.

That's all of the countries.

EDIT:

Downvote me all you want, I can pull plenty of examples. Nothing pisses off a voting constituency more than a major regional employer shuttering, so governments do something about it. That, or the government wants to build/maintain a hegemony, so they float companies to outlast competition.
> 3. Allowing Intel to handle the packaging process for TSMC's Arizona-based operations.

WTF does that achieve? TSMC fabs all the advanced chips and Intel becomes just a packager? Window dressing.
Yes, any such transpiler would certainly need to be engine aware (for multiple reasons). Right off the bat, the output needs to be in a syntax the engine accepts, and there are all kinds of differences from engine to engine, version to version.

And, as you say, if the language contains higher-level abstractions, it might need to work quite differently depending on the target engine.

My thought is to avoid those higher-level abstractions as much as possible and just expose the capabilities of the engine as directly as possible, albeit with a different syntax. In my experience, developers who are willing and able to write SQL are fine with targeting a specific engine and optimizing to that. (Those that aren't get someone else to do it, or live with he sad consequences of dealing with an ORM.)

To summarize:

Normal Approach: you pick an engine, and get the syntax that comes with it. You need to know what the engine does well and doesn't do well. You write SQL accordingly, using the syntax the engine accepts.

Transpiler Approach: you pick an engine, and independently choose a syntax. You still need to know what the engine does well and doesn't do well. You still write SQL accordingly, but using the syntax of the language you chose.
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The funny thing is that a typical horse probably has closer to 2 or 3 horsepower and a big chonkin draft horse up to 4 or 5 times.

James Watt just picked the smallest possible value of horse when defining the unit so he could sell more steam engines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxTKtlvaVE (donut, How Much Horsepower is a Horse?)
That's a solid principle we are, or should be, using in our daily work - namely in refactoring.
Incentive structures, mostly.
It's users. Between the die hard Trump supporters and the users who flag any political content on HN it's more or less impossible for anything DOGE related to stay up without the mods active protection. There's a contact link you can use at the bottom of the page if you think something is flagged that deserves said protection.
You'd be bored after a week .Maslows hierarchy of needs would see you craving recognition,solving hunger in Africa etc in your free time
Fix Britain by spending even less money?
It's a motto used by American law enforcement to justify extrajudicial punishment. Since they are the "thin blue line" that separates the public from anarchy, they are justified in acting independently to "protect" us when judges and juries do not "cooperate".
I think the more realistic long term victims will be implementation specialists and business analysts. The middlemen who sit between product (developer) and customer.

Giving your product the ability to talk & work directly with the customer seems to me a much more valuable activity than covering all the edge cases that would arise during the development of such a solution with an LLM.

Remember, everything is a function [0] and LLMs support calling them. The trick is having the skill and domain expertise to establish bounded contexts and prompts that align with realistic product use cases and transition between them cleanly.

I know there is a lot of doubt that users would enjoy using a chat interface, but I strongly believe it would be popular as long as it actually works. If it's not well designed and the GUI tools are faster even for a novice, you will have wasted a lot of time/money for nothing.

[0] https://youtu.be/zHU1xH6Ogs4
That’s not what equivocation means, genius
The Doctor and the Pilot Who Saved the Eyesight of Millions
I'm really sorry about this and I've seen your magnificent work bring so much joy to people. The harassers and abusers should be named and shamed so we can strengthen the resilience of the open source community. Let's see how they react when they get a taste of their own medicine.
The fact that you see corporate layoffs and what Elon Musk is doing in the U.S. government as in any way remotely comparable is... troubling.
Full Title: Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

This isn’t surpringly coming from any person who runs a cloud infrastructure company (be it Oracle, AWS, Azure, etc).

Oracle is literally in the business of selling services to host & process data.

Of course they (or AWS/Azure/etc) want everyone to put their data into one big services they sell.
The three levels of AI understanding
There's nothing really to prove. They effectively confirmed it themselves:

https://vt.social/@lina/112887550181123672

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W2Vvwg0rwSVb5r4TQ_NmAF8S...
I understand the challenges he's facing. But I think he put a bit too much of himself into the project. So everything is personal. When someone asks for functionality "why no thund3rb01t OmG" you should be able to say without taking it personally "driver will take time or a volunteer".

> I miss having free time where I can relax and not worry about the features we haven’t shipped yet. I miss making music. I miss attending jam sessions. I miss going out for dinner with my friends and family and not having to worry about how much we haven’t upstreamed. I miss being able to sit down and play a game or watch a movie without feeling guilty.

Honestly I think working like 10+ hour days and not doing other things that are less stressful and enjoyable (people being their biggest stressor in this regard).

They likely have PTSD at this point.

Whatever you need Marcan. I hope you find it. I'm rooting for your health and happiness.
you should hang out with some far right people.
If you want to run Linux in a VM, you can already do that without needing asahi.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tesla-trade-secret...

Before you go “well how could two people cause all of this”, it’s the two people we heard about.

There’s no suing in China to protect your shit.
Thanks for the paper, will check it out! (Still skeptical that we should encourage LLM summarization though, suspect people would gain more and actually learn things from reading papers.)
How did you install it? App Store or direct?

Edit: I installed via the App Store. Double-clicking a file in Finder works but opening from within LibreOffice does not.
There does not have to be a law for the US government to do something.

Remember the NSA spying scandal?
Does it matter?

The question was if anyone uses BSD as a desktop and the answer is yes people do.

> You can only spend your time once, so do you use it to work on something benefiting your tens of millions of existing Linux users, or something benefiting your thousands of potential BSD users?

I couldn’t care less how the Wayland devs decided to prioritise their time. But it is worth pointing out that Wayland was architected from the ground up to be agnostic. That’s why it’s the polar opposite to the the “batteries included” design of X.

And as others have pointed out, Wayland is available for some BSD already.