skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, it's one of those other kinds of Trojan horses that don't enter the city walls.

The kind that have to be invited in, yes.

So -- I'll ask what the Rust for Linux people asked Hellwig -- what is your suggested alternative? Where do we go from here? Is it Rust drivers not be allowed to common interfaces ever? In that case, what are the Rust for Linux team doing?

That's not the kernel team's problem. They provide a common C interface. The fact that there's an impedance mismatch with binding to them from Rust code is a Rust problem.

Or is it that you would like Linus rethink his decision re: adding Rust to the kernel? And if so, why didn't Hellwig make that case directly to Linus? What's with all this performative bellyaching on the LKML?

I don't know what Linus's goals are, apart from keeping his maintainers happy and keeping the kernel rolling along smoothly. That's not a small thing. From what I can see, Christoph has been a maintainer for over 25 years.

Does Linus want to have his cake and eat it too? Sure. But I think he earned that right by building Linux into what it is today. The R4L team hasn't paid their dues. As someone else mentioned, it took 10 years for Clang to become a supported compiler for the kernel.
If you use uBlock with the annoyances filters enabled, the majority of those go away. I very rarely see them.
Why do the good ones go in the potty and the bad ones in the crib? (Google Translate.)
> any watermarking can be instantly & easily stripped...

I think it took a while before printer watermarking (yellow dots) was discovered. It certainly cannot be stripped. It was possibly developed in the mid-80s but not known to the public until mid 2000s.
The author is talking about social thing though. Raising ones' children which is a social and cultural. Bringing in race is completely valid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)
> But no. Trump, ever the "stable genius," prefers cozying up to dictators.

Part of me is convinced Putin has enough dirt to sink even this "Teflon Don", which necessitates him acquiescing to whatever the puppet-master demands.

What looks like "cozying up" might very well be "time to pay your dues".

At the same time, his IDGAF attitude is one of his key strengths, so maybe there really is nothing anyone could possibly divulge that would "hurt" him.
Welp, crossing Hawaii off the vacation destinations list
Your first claim was "we, American citizens, will never receive anything like that" and after that's been thoroughly debunked, you're conveniently moving the goalposts. Now it's suddenly all about some ill-defined "average citizen", and I'm sure your next claim is that veterans, people on welfare, and people with medical problems are all somehow not average.

Do better.
DOGE's Records Could Be Sealed for Up to a Decade If Musk Gets His Way
We invented a lot of things before the alphabet, though, such as the drawer, the manacle, musical scales, and socks with toes. I feel like a rich background of objects was necessary before we got it together to reach an alphabet level of abstraction. Letter T is a wheel (it's the spokes).
Shot-scraper 1.6 with support for HTTP Archives
Yeah I certainly don’t want to mischaracterize anyone here and I attempted to communicate how this is really a knee-jerk, human reaction to something new making inroads into a space people have extensive expertise in. New ideas additionally shouldn’t be derided based upon the poor behavior of some in the community.
However, it may only get merged in by being conceptually re-thought and reimplemented, like the Linux USB or KGI projects back in the day.

The general pushback for changes in Linux are against large impactful changes. They want your code to be small fixes they can fully understand, or drivers that can be excluded from the build system if they start to crash or aren't updated to a new API change.

You can't take a years-maintained external codebase and necessarily convert it to an incremental stream of small patches and optional features for upstream maintainers, unless you knew to impose that sort of restriction on yourself as a downstream maintainer.
I forget sometimes that the papers and talks issued by teams at most companies are for PR and resume-padding. They hype the findings that justify that team's budget, and bury any negatives.

The other funny thing I noticed is the formal verification just means the program implements the standard - it doesn't mean the standard doesn't have security holes! And sometimes the security holes are implementation-specific, like timing attacks, which can require weird low-level tricks to solve.
Want to have a conversation on what you agree or disagree with? I may have a newer account but definitely not a kid, in fact I have kids of my own
Writing comprehensive tests is the part we're weakest at IMHO.

That's the same paradigm as outsourcing development at some cheap place and doing acceptance tests against the result. It saves money but that's not how you'd build an airplane for instance...
who should do packaging for each distro?

- upstream maintainer: too much work. each distro requires certain best practices/convention.

- distro: may not meet certain standard set by upstream maintainer.
This isn't an alternative to it.

You can still write

```
SELECT country, COUNT() AS num_records
FROM t
GROUP BY country
```

And then append something like

```
|> EXTEND FLOOR(num_records / 10) 10 AS num_records_bin
|> AGGREGATE COUNT(*) AS num_countries
GROUP BY num_records_bin
```

to get a histogram without having to nest stuff
FWIW, the US govt does not have a back door into the encrypted data held by US companies. A US company is not obligated to create a way to decrypt customer data to respond to a court order.

So this is different, and worse. Not everything stupid in the world can be blamed on the US, as it seems you're trying to do. Plenty can! But not everything. Some stupid is home grown. See also: Brexit.
> There are other systems in the world (namely the scandinavian countries) that don't allow individuals to accumulate that amount of wealth.

This is a common misconception. The Scandinavian model has changed rapidly the last few decades. Sweden now ranks higher than the US in number of dollar billionaires per capita, even if none are at Ellison level yet.

Edited to add: in fact, the Scandinavian model has always been more about equality of income, rather than wealth. There are, and has been throughout the 20th century, wealthy dynasties as well as industry tycoons who has largely been left alone by the social democratic system, and indeed viewed more as an important part of the system than anything else. Since the 90s, though, it has changed rapidly, such that today there is no tax on wealth, inheritance, gifts or real estate, as well as a low corporate income tax.
They would be a good steward of pinboard.in if it were for sale / recovery.
Hence the advice to stick to the standard library - because then it doesn't matter all that much. I'm not sure what the full set of environments I've tested my Python 3 scripts actually is, but they've run OK on all the various cloud CI systems I've tried, plus my laptops, VMs, and work PCs.
I think we're making orthogonal points.

I agree that life is very unlikely on any given earth-like planet. And most life out there is probably of the unicellular sort.

I also don't think its guaranteed that humanity will last beyond the point we can 3D print an antimatter supersoaker.

I am just saying that out of 50 sextillion chances, I bet enough planets evolved human level intelligence that at least one made it to the singularity. And given that most rolls of the dice happened billions of years ago, whatever the singularity turns into exists already, and has for billions of years.

I don't think this is optimistic in the slightest, I think its a very sober reading of the probabilities. I would actually say that thinking we're unique is the optimistic point of view.

But I think that what I'm saying feels optimistic because its contrarian, and its contrarian because our intuitions just aren't calibrated to reason through this sort of thing. A lot of it is because of our fiction. We imagine green space men because that's what actors dressed up in suits can portray. We imagine aliens like ourselves, don't find that, and conclude there aren't any of any sort. We imagine other civilizations out there to be contemporaneous with ourselves and on the same timeline because that's all we've ever seen. And we can't grapple with numbers like 50 sextillion because we're evolved to count bananas. But if you think about the odds we're the only intelligent life that evolved and just reason through it using numbers, how can you think we're alone? There are only 100ish atomic elements that matter. They're all pretty common. Our star is very average. The Earth is a pretty pedestrian rocky planet. The Milky Way is pretty average. Life emerged relatively quickly after the planet cooled (on an astronomical imescale). The fact that we look out into space and don't see anything means diddly squat because we can only observe 5 earth-like planets/moons out of 50 sextillion. But we feel alone and unique because we're evolved to assume that all we see is all there is.
I have done both over the past 3 decades. in the office the most I worked productively ever is maybe 3.5/4hrs. at home it is not uncommon I hit 9-10hrs of straight up work. just about everyone I know feels the same way. my at-office day is like:

- drive 20 minutes

- get in, hit the breakroom, coffee and chat for 20-30 minutes

- work a bit, maybe a meeting

- IM bunch of people about lunch plans

- go to lunch for 90 minutes

- back at the office, another 15-20 minutes before settling in

- work a bit while keeping an eye on traffic to head home

- head home

At home,

- get up and work for about 90 minutes

- bike to school with my kid.

- work for 6-ish hours

- pick up my kid

- work another 90 minutes while she is doing school work

- parenting fun

- work another 60-90 after her bedtime

the core difference between at-office and at-home is that when I have to go to the office I do not touch my computer at home ever (often won’t even take it home with me) while when I am at home I will frequently work late at night etc
Sure thing

https://wideangle.co/blog/is-recaptcha-illegal-under-gdpr#cn...
at best this is a case of correlation not causation. but also given that lgbt folks are fairly common in all programming communities, i have a hard time believing these two are related and this is not something more specific to rust's culture
I generally disable JavaScripts, and I disable many other things as well, so many of these things are not displayed on my computer anyways.
If there are such stalkers they are probably ITT as well.
Wow. Did you read the next three paragraphs to the end of the article:

| Policymakers are now attempting to come up with solutions. “You can make solar play nice with the grids,” ...

| Yet the best solution would be for energy firms to respond to the competition and sort themselves out.

The article is talking about:
* how solar is disrupting the traditional utility model
* in countries where the utilities provide a poor service wealthy people are doing there own thing producing their own power with PV
* how this leads to less customers for the utility leading to more expensive power for people who cannot afford to generate their own power
* that solutions like grid-tied home PV instead of independent systems provides a better outcome for everyone in the area.

I don't think it it to much of a stretch to say that the article is advocating for, as you say, "a hybrid centralized baseline + local generation and storage."
You can go to A&E at Moorefields. At least that's what I did for a macular hole. I got offered an operation within a couple of months.

You can also get referred from an optometrist, found in many high st opticians to a ophthalmologist. GPs are not very keen to deal with eye issues as they don't have the specialist training and equipment. Like the optometrist will likely have an OCT scanner but not your GP.
Fair enough.

I think this is true of a lot of things that are 'in our house' (or on our property). A fatuous hypothetical example might be a large central refrigerator shared between multiple properties.

The apartment building I live in has large central boilers for the hot water, to save space in the apartments. This benefitted the property developer, and is probably more energy efficient (although, just like our solar power example, transmission loss needs to be accounted for), but has downsides for the apartment residents.

A better example is private vehicle ownership, as opposed to public transport. It's a good example of something that has moved from a more centralised control to individual control, with benefits and downsides.
May be a poor example, it’s what came to mind initially. I don’t think the end results are at all the same but I think the initial emotions around why you may balk at something new entering your community have parallels to the topic at hand.
Why would fedora have their own version of OBS studio when the package is already supported by the official team on flathub? Isn't this exactly the reason why flatpak was created, to avoid all the needless packaging that every distro had to do in order to install the program?
Seems perfectly reasonable and would achieve the desired goal of making it clear it's a third party package not "official" OBS.
Meh. Seems like there's some unstated background context here. The proximate cause isn't the linked bug at OBS, it's this bug report to Fedora: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463

Basically it demands that the FlatPak be removed from the repository citing "problems" that aren't detailed. Then 22 days later they start throwing bombs on their own gitlab (again, without details about what the problems with the FlatPak) and get those posted to HN?

Lots of steam, no meat. If this did go to a lawyer, the first question would be "Well, did you try to work with them?" Seemingly the answer is no. Or if it's "yes", it's somewhere back in the history of a pre-existing conflict.

This isn't the first conflict between an upstream and a distro about packaging process and it won't be the last. By definition the feature we users want from the distros is that they are making opinionated choices about how to present the world of software to us.
Am I misreading things or is increasingly the case that LETTUCE is deadlier then undercooked meat?

Is there a radiation treatment or similar for lettuce? Can it simply be washed thoroughly?

I don't even like it.
I suppose it depends on the field but there are plenty of Master’s programs that have no tuition plus stipend.
> Think of a song you know best, one you've listened to hundreds of times: can you sing it or hear it in your head pretty accurately (edit - not accurate intervals, but accurate pitch)? If so, congrats, you have the capacity for perfect pitch.

Absolute pitch can't be self-assessed subjectively like this. Hearing a song in your head is meaningless because you don't have an absolute reference to compare to.

Also, please read the first line of the abstract: Absolute pitch in this context also specifically refers to identification of heard tones, not ability to produce those tones yourself (in your head or otherwise). The test for absolute pitch involves playing different pitches spanning an octave and measuring how accurately and quickly the candidate can identify each pitch.

The first line of the abstract:

> Absolute pitch (AP) refers to the ability to identify the pitch of a tone without external references.

Even studies of students at prominent music Conservatories have shown low prevalence among their students. These are people who have been training for years and started at a young age. So you can't expect to come anywhere near perfect pitch as a casual person singing a song in your head.

Absolute pitch isn't a strictly defined trait. The participants in this study improved their pitch identification abilities after intense training, but they still haven't approached the thresholds of absolute pitch identification used in many of the studies of music students.

A common theme among absolute pitch studies is that people who started music at a young age (typically less than 5) score higher on absolute pitch tests. This study doesn't undermine that fact.
I think the main issue in this case is that the maintainers provide an official flathub entry themselves. People using the fedora flatpak are not aware that they are using an unofficial (and incomplete) package, and then go to upstream with their issues.
Simple answer: Whoever the upstream decides should do it. For my code I'm very happy to have distributions shipping packages because it means the code is available more easily for users and with less work from me -- but if a distro was shipping a broken package I would absolutely say "please stop doing that".
Is there any generous interpretation of this that makes it okay?
Unless you're shopping for something that is wasm-centric, almost certainly the thing you want is openstack[1] (or possibly Apache CloudStack but I doubt it)

1: https://www.openstack.org/
> They ask God (used here to represent math itself)

Thank you so much, I am 100% stealing this
Kalman filters are useful in data processing and interpretation, I used them heavily in continuous geophysical signal processing four decades past.

My guess is that many computer data engineers encounter them and find their self taught grasp of linear algebra and undergraduate math challenged by the theory behind K-F's .. they seem to come across as a bit of a leg up over moving averages, Savitzky–Golay, FFT applications, etc.

There are many more people dealing with implementing these things than have had formal undergraduate lectures on them.

My gut feeling is that most are more likley to encounter K-F applications in drone control, dead reckoning positions when undergound or with flakey GPS, cleaning real world data, etc. than to find themselves having to solve PDE's ..

I posit the existence of some form of pragmatic Maslow's Hierarchy of Applicable Math.

I do agree though that HN has odd bursts of Kalman filter posts.
There have been tens of billions of vaccinations.
Your reading comprehension is not good.

From the article:

> In a classic Mother Jones cover story from 1977, reporter Mark Dowie spent six months investigating the deadly Ford Pintos and found that the company rushed to create and distribute the cars to beat the competition

I don't know how they can be clearer that that is talking about the development of the Ford Pinto, not the cybertruck.
Specifically Collabora Office - https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office/ - since one of the points was off-line (those subscriptions are for the browser-based version)
Why do you use a new handle to post this? Please use your normal account and accept whatever karma hits or - more likely - gains you expect to get instead of hiding behind the excuse that you do not know your password.

Also, politics is supposed to be off-limits here but I sure noticed a change in tolerance for blatantly political posts after the elections. Maybe Dang can give a reason for why it suddenly is acceptable to criticise the sitting government where such posts where hidden with warnings about 'only using HN for political purposes' during the last regime. Is it simply because those posts got flagged while posts like this one get upvoted? If so it shows where the voting system fails in creating an open environment for wide-ranging discussion on topics of interest since it creates an echo chamber where only certain political ideas are tolerated while the rest is greyed out.
Does anyone have more context for the name-calling and poor communication from the Fedora team? Seems like pretty poor behaviour from them if true
Do you have a link/timestamp handy for that?
Your relative pitch gets decent within a few weeks of practice (<10h).

Getting it always right takes longer, and so do "weird" intervals, but the basic intervals are not that hard. Also, basic knowledge of song structure, phrases, and chords helps with relative pitch, because it narrows down the set of choices in many circumstances.

After all, the most useful exercise of relative pitch is "what's that melody", not "what's that random interval".

As for precision of relative pitch: After a year of weekly training, most people are able to tune a guitar to within 2-3 cents. Which is, granted, a very specific form of relative pitch, but it shows you can get pretty good precision at that. It probably extends further. (IDK, I have seen no examples of people explicitly practicing microtonal relative pitch outside of "tune an instrument")
Automation of dangerous judgement or management decisions is never something a computer should ever do. It's also the cargo cult of worshipping technology as a panacea for social and organizational problems that is itself a problem. Furthermore, the lack of resistance amongst the apolitical functionaries is depressing. I have a bit of hope though that the rage and the furious, righteous anger of federal judges will compel the US Marshal Service to do what is necessary to restore real law and order, and that the DOJ's new flunky won't be able to stop ethical, professional execution of their sacred duty.
I like lettuce, even iceberg lettuce, but not at the cost of ingesting parasites.
Well, in this case it seems like there already is an official Flatpak, but Fedora is overriding it with their own, which is of lower quality. The problem was already solved, unless Fedora is claiming that their Flatpak is better in some specific way.
What you said sounds nice, unfortunately that's not how it works in the real world.
Lawyers. They're milking both sides.
You're on HackerNews so I assume you work in software. Your income is top 0.1% globally. But that doesn't solve your problems, does it?
That's why they named it LM2 ..
An approach I use is splitting my config tools into 2 stages

Stage 1 creates a "explicit" config that can be exported to plaintext that contains exactly what is going to be created/modified with no abstraction/simplification

Stage 2 applies the "explicit" config

You get to be as clever as you want in stage 1 to avoid excessive copy pasting or not being able to know what your tool is going to do because all you have to go on is some homegrown DSL
I would assume there would be more structure and outside requirements to a phd than a hobby. More feedback and more requirements in general to do things you wouldn't do as part of a free form hobby where you could just avoid the undesirable aspects.
Yes but those updates aren’t guaranteed like they are on web, so you have to ensure backwards compatibility at all times or do painful forced upgrade modals.

Uber still has plenty of drivers in Europe using super super years old versions of the app (I think to circumvent new limits or something) and they still have to keep it working for them
This study is specifically about the ability to identify heard tones.

It's literally the first line of the abstract:

> Absolute pitch (AP) refers to the ability to identify the pitch of a tone without external references.