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I disagree. If you want to provide technical leadership by massively changing the organization and tooling of a huge project that has been around a long time, it should be absolutely mandatory to spend years building trust and doing work that you don't want to do.

That's just how programming on teams and trust and teamwork actually works in the real world. Especially on a deadly serious not-hobby project like the kernel.

Sometimes you are gonna have to do work that doesn't excite you. That's life doing professional programming.

Everything Ted Tso recommended is just common sense teamwork 101 stuff and it's just generally good advice for programmers in their careers. The inability of rust people to follow it will only hurt them and doom their desire to be accepted by larger more important projects in the long run. Programming on a team is a social affair and pretending you don't have to play by the rules because you have such great technical leadership is arrogant.
The thing is, it's not strange at all. Graft and corruption were the usual way throughout most of history.

Over the last 80 or so years, we have, at least every once in a while, tried tackling those issues. For a variety of reasons mainly related to economics, the US government is now headed by people who want to return to the old ways, mainly for their personal enrichment. So it's, I don't know, 80 years of attempts to do better, and ~5920 years of the status quo.

Elections have consequences.
It tends to reveal a lot of extra information, even when you're playing it straight rather than trying to trick the AI.

Like, when you ask the "does the reason the window is open matter?"-style questions that should be bread and butter for this kind of game it'll often go beyond a "YES" into "YES, the reason the window is open provides crucial context to what they were thinking". The worst case was me asking whether somebody died via foul play, and the AI answered "NO. Your question is whether he was intentionally killed rather than it being a <spoiler> accident".
> "If you are interested in hiring me or know someone who might be, please get in touch. Remote positions only please, on a consulting or flexible time/non exclusive basis"

https://youtu.be/2HJxya0CWco
> It's easy for people (especially the kinds of people who gravitate towards engineering) to get all worked up about the necessary implications of the regulations as-written

I was once trying to figure out taxes owed on some RSUs granted in California that vested in North Carolina (and some other edge case that I can’t remember). Hoh boy. What a rabbit hole. I didn’t think the CPA that I hired to do my taxes handled it correctly, so I started digging into the tax laws and regulations. Couldn’t find anything that covered my specific case. So I started digging into court cases involving disputes over RSU taxes owed in North Carolina and found conflicting outcomes.

I brought what I had found back to the CPA who basically said something along the lines of: there is no absolute “rule” for what to do in this case like you’re looking for. We make a good faith effort to mirror what was done in similar prior situations, write a number down, and then forget about it unless you hear from the IRS.

Did not make me feel very confident about the legal system.
StarOffice was exciting circa 1999. You could get an office suit on Linux that was useable and largely compatible with MS Office.
They set up global satellite communications over 20 years ago. They did change the world.
LookML does seem to have invested a lot in compilation to different SQL backends, generally using the best syntax for each.

Unfortunately the frontend is so tightly tied to the Looker BI stuff, and it can't really express arbitrary queries without going through lots of hassle.

Its unclear what Google is doing with Looker. Its would be interesting to imagine what LookML would be like as an independent SQL tool chain.
More victims of China's Salt Typhoon crew emerge: Telcos now hit via Cisco bugs
Didn't your change in behavior also prove that your harassment "worked"?
In this case I mean the players are the sociopatic billionaires.

However, in a democracy, all citizens are players.
I dunno, sanctioning the International Criminal Court doesn't seem to help anyone but the worst swamp monsters that deprive people of human rights on either side of the aisle. America should be integrating itself better into the global context instead of ripping itself out to exploit our allies.

Trump's negotiations with Hamas have just officially failed, he didn't manage peace in Ukraine on day 1 as promised, and he's not seeming to coerce Mexico or Canada into serious reform. China still controls America's economy and telcos, exports propaganda and fentanyl, and threatens Taiwan undeterred. Playing hardball with these countries doesn't seem to be working anymore.
> so backwards compatibility is maintained.

That's not what backwards compatibility means in this context. You're talking about how a compiler is backwards compatible. We're talking about the language itself, and upgrading from one versions of the language to the next.

Rust 2015 is not the same thing as C89, that is true.

> packages can be broken by simply upgrading the compiler version

This is theoretically true, but in practice, this rarely happens. Take the certainly-a-huge-mistake time issue discussed above. I actually got hit by that one, and it took me like ten minutes to even realize that it was the compiler's fault, because upgrading is generally so hassle free. The fix was also about five minutes worth of work. Yes, they should do better, but I find Rust upgrades to be the smoothest of any ecosystem I've ever dealt with, including C and C++ compilers.
Please don't allow partisan blog spam on the site. Liberal or conservative.

Even if it's true, don't use a partisan blog as a source.
The change itself was very reasonable. They only missed the mark on how that change was introduced. They should have waited with it until the next Rust edition, or at least held back a few releases to give users of the one affected package time to update.

The change was useful, fixing an inconsistency in a commonly used type. The downside was that it broke code in 1 package out of 100,000, and only broke a bit of useless code that was accidentally left in and didn't do anything. One package just needed to delete 6 characters.

Once the new version of Rust was released, they couldn't revert it without risk of breaking new code that may have started relying on the new behavior, so it was reasonable to stick with the one known problem than potentially introduce a bunch of new ones.
We do, it's not as if we aren't doing any testing. I've been getting a yearly prostatic antigen test for several years now.

The recommendations tend to take these into account, and then you and your doctor adjust.

Sometimes politics gets into it, like with the recent changes to breast cancer recommendations, but, overall, it works well for many people.
This is a great hack if you want to make some parody products and need to lift a vector logo of a brand.
Indeed. When I was in college I designed a stack-based CPU. It was a perfectly sane design decision to keep the stack in main memory. It made the design VERY simple (but I kept a couple registers in the architecture, just in case).

These days it'd be an unbelievably stupid decision.
Arm secures Meta as first customer for ambitious new chip project
Your comment misunderstands the entire point and risk assessment of what's being talked about.

It's about the overall stability and "contract" of the tooling/platform, not what the tooling can control under it. A great example was already given: It took clang 10 years to be "accepted."

It has nothing to do with the language or its overall characteristics, it's about stability.
Let's not move goalposts. It's still undeniably both "Starlink" and "Direct To Cell," so I would say that Starlink Direct To Cell is indeed available.
Wow. This is disgusting.
I'm not blaming the victims for anything. But I am absolutely saying that you need to modify your behavior in order to get what you want oftentimes. Suggesting that people make even the smallest changes to their lives in 2025 is apparently victim blaming.
I don't understand how abusive bullies like Ted are allowed the privilege of being a senior kernel developer. This feels, in the end, like the fault of Linus, for allowing abusive maintainers to maintain their grip.
This analysis claims someone that detonated a bunch of fireworks and then shot himself in the head as a "fire fatality" and acknowledges it.
Then how come your URL has two acronyms in only seven characters /s

No, I know what you mean. There's a balance between using the right lingo to communicate clearly with subject matter experts (SMEs if you will) and communicating clearly with those who only have a passing interest. A buddy of mine from college had a 2JZ FC RX7, but he could have also just said it was a japanese sportscar with an engine swap. Depends on the target audience. I guess on the internet, you're often talking with both kinds of people which makes it tricky.
probably shown in the photosynthesis video example but yes it seems it uses mermaid or something similar to express diagrams?
Yes, worldwide, and almost half of all Teslas are sold in China.

The idea that they can continue to stay atop of the Chinese market is not a bet I would be willing to take.
DNC cozied up to one of the last big ones to do it, Cheney, with Halliburton contracts

Edit: No, Dick was eagerly welcomed for his support. Liz helped spread the message of his support
I have been using Phind for building SQL queries and it's actually great to learn more about SQL, and the results are mostly correct. Just try to ask it to build some advanced query then you discover you don't truly know SQL.
I'm not going to empathize with them based on a slightly derivative version of the Nuremberg defense. The fact that this is how they're choosing to deploy their wealth speaks volumes - all for me, nothing for the public good. Why not collectively agree to limit their wealth to a sustainable billion dollars each? They could police each other on that just as easily as the dragon-hoarding they're doing now.
This topic came up 11 years ago after Facebook did human subjects research by tweaking a ranking algorithm.

https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2014/06/29/how-an-irb-cou...
As somebody with ADHD going on, the metaphor I've seen that I like best is to imagine that you have to do absolutely everything while bringing along a giant husky on a leash. Even when it's cooperative it's a source of friction; when it isn't, you're trying to drag it along just to be in a place to complete basic tasks.
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That has nothing to do with this article and CyberTruck?

Also, Tesla sales went down in 2024 in the US.
https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2491/tesla-suffers-sharp-d...
It kind suggests that maybe some of what they do isn't that necessary and a 10% staff cut not so bad?

I looked on their website and it says they do digital.gov, and on that site there is stuff like

>An introduction to digital governance. Understand how and why to implement digital governance

>Case study
At the General Services Administration (GSA), we operate a Digital Experience Executive Board, supported by an agency-wide Digital Council. The Board is composed of senior executives who provide high-level direction, and Council members coordinate implementation of digital initiatives within their business line. We also have an Enterprise Digital Experience team to coordinate enterprise improvements to our agency’s digital experience. Read more about digital governance at GSA.

>We also defined the work of a website manager and identified one website manager for each digital property at GSA. Then, we updated their position descriptions... https://digital.gov/resources/an-introduction-to-digital-gov...

It doesn't sound that lean and mean.
Anyone have any experience with Evolven?
Their product for IT Ops Change Tracking looks interesting, anyone have any details about pricing, features, etc? (https://www.evolven.com/)
Makes logical sense to read about. We give my daughter as much consistency as possible
Family meals, bedtime, we live on a routine...
She's still a tiny terrorist.
Economically, everbody is friction from someone else's perspective.
Amazon is closing a Kindle loophole that makes it easy to remove DRM
The analysis is quite lackluster because it only compares vehicle quantity where as fires are more a function of quantity and usage, so you should really be comparing vehicle-years or vehicle-miles.

For the Tesla Cybertruck, we can overestimate the vehicle-years by counting the quantity at at the end of the year for the full year for a total of 34,438 vehicle-years.

For the Ford Pinto, we can underestimate the vehicle-years by only counting the quantity at the start of the year for the full year only until the recall halfway through 1978 (e.g. we count 1971 production starting in 1972 until 1978.5 for a total of only 6.5 years). In that case, we count a total of 10,125,030 vehicle-years.

Excluding the controversial fatality for the Cybertruck, so we only count 4 fire fatalities, that is 1 fire fatality per ~8609.5 vehicle-years versus the Ford Pinto at 1 per ~375,001 vehicle-years; making the Tesla Cybertruck ~43.5 times higher than the excess fire deaths of the Ford Pinto.

Comparing against overall fire fatality rate [1]. In 2022, there were 650 confirmed deaths in vehicles where a fire occurred over ~232,000,000 household vehicles. That is a rate of about 1 fire fatality per ~350,000 vehicle-years; making the fire fatality rate of the Tesla Cybertruck ~41.4 times higher than the average vehicle.

Note that the Ford Pinto is just excess fire deaths attributed to the gas tank defect rather than the total fire rate which is not well reported which is why it might be comparable to the overall fire fatality rate of today despite higher fire safety on most modern cars. All fires for the Ford Pinto is likely a higher number than the 27 fire deaths directly attributed to the specific defect.

[1] https://content.nfpa.org/-/media/Project/Storefront/Catalog/...
I dunno about StarOffice code, but the interchange file format became the Open Document Format (ODF) is almost unchanged. I've worked with it since before ODF was formalized. The current version is at most a polishing of structures that have been there well over 20 years. It's also, in extraordinary sharp comparison to the XML structures Microsoft drafted (confusingly called Office Open XML), well-designed and joy to work with.
How can we not know it? It's every second sentence out of every Tesla fanboy's keyboard. Thankfully, people wised up to the scam and it's no longer the case.
If proposal 2 goes through, it means that Intel will shut down any development activity in Oregon and rely only on TSMC for next generation technology. It might be warranted given Intel abysmal track record for developing nodes but still unfortunate for the thousands of engineers who will get let go.
>But then also came the entitled users. This time, it wasn’t about stealing games, it was about features. “When is Thunderbolt coming?” “Asahi is useless to me until I can use monitors over USB-C” “The battery life sucks compared to macOS” (nobody ever complained when compared to x86 laptops…) “I can’t even check my CPU temperature” (yes, I seriously got that one).

>And, of course, “When is M3/M4 support coming?”

This is awful framing. It isn't entitled to ask when something is happenint or to say what makes something unsuitable for you. Marcan seems to take every single social media comment about Asahi Linux as a direct personal attack. No wonder he is burnt out, anyone with such a habit would be...
We don't have a national ID because of pushback from fundie Christians. Some of them see any national ID as a mark of the beast.

I couldn't remember the details so I googled it and found:

> In the Bible, the "Mark of the Beast" is a symbolic mark mentioned in the Book of Revelation, representing a sign of allegiance to an evil power (often interpreted as the Antichrist) that will be forced upon people during the end times, allowing them to buy and sell, and is often associated with the number 666; it is seen as a mark on the forehead or hand, signifying devotion to this power and its leader.

https://www.gotquestions.org/mark-beast.html
This is nitpicking, but I guess which disease bears the title depends on how you define it. I remember seeing some estimate that malaria has killed ~40% of all humans that have ever lived.
Every medical procedure after a scan has danger. Biopsies kill people. Colonospies kill people. The rate is extremely low, but test enough people who aren't at risk to have the disease and you will actively harm them.
Yea, not sure why the Biden admin was bribing Musk with that contract.
Just to be clear, this is the situation. A rando submits a C patch that breaks Rust code, a maintainer accepts this patch and then demands that the R4L devs fix the breakage introduced by someone else and reviewed by themselves. The rando who broke the thing isn't around, and the person who reviewed the change takes no responsibility.

Have I gotten that right?

And then you're presenting this situation as "the Rust for Linux team isn't promising to fix breakages in Rust for Linux code". Somewhat disingenuous.
The reason nobody is interested in the independent research efforts of little online community groups is that it's almost certain that they didn't put enough thought into the statistical design of their study, and thus the results are meaningless. Generally professional academics have to submit their research proposal to a funding agency and the statistical design is examined at every stage of the process to ensure that results will have some validity - and even then, it's not unusual for preliminary studies that look promising to be overturned by later more comprehensive studies.

Even with all this professional double-checking, a non-trivial amount of fraud and data manipulation takes place as academics rush to climb the bureaucratic ladder or get large corporations to buy their government-subsidized startups, often making it difficult even for experts in the field to determine what's reliable and what isn't.
> push back against the H1B/Offshoring

Or against satellite offices. I drive 30 minutes into the office twice a week per corporate standards... and spend the whole day on zoom calls with co-workers in other offices in different cities.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/dona...

Unfavorable rating of 48, vs favorable of 46.

was this satire or sarcasm?
Hmm. Doesn't that work out close to about 12% of all Cybertruck sales to date?
Warning: snark incoming.

The article also has a strong whiff of: the author has one young, neurotypical child and is now pretty sure he's got this whole parenting thing figured out, decides to blog about it. Then the overwhelmingly young, male, childless HN brigade descends with virtue-signaling responses about what amazing parents they'd be if, you know, they had kids, and how easy it would be.
If you have coax, I've found MoCA to be more reliable than powerline.
What was wrong with Kamala Harris?
Now this is a clever comment
Conversely, a social and “in practice” reason why government-funded institutions _do_ use IRBs is to allay fiscal hawks and criticism about state funding being misused.
Are you sure it's not common for US corporations to have access to public funds, either through subsidies or public investment of some sort?
I could not imagine any private news-gathering organization to set up a temporary cell network for coverage.
And despite all that, apparently the DOD just awarded Tesla a $400M contract to produce armored Teslas. That will somehow charge up at the local war zone charging station? https://www.yahoo.com/news/musk-wins-400m-us-government-1413...
FYI, it's widely known that the US government has being buying citizen data from data brokers.
that's where I stopped reading. that let me know this was not a rigorous study and had other motivations
Country yes but govt no.

Just the interest on the US debt is almost a trillion dollars a year now which is 3% of GDP and the debt is ~35 trillion. Deficit spending is higher than federal taxes on the paycheck, which means you're basically paying double of what your paycheck shows.

Meanwhile Norway's sovereign wealth fund has $1.75 trillion dollars.
Discussion (62 points, 1 day ago, 29 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43025393
Distillation Scaling Laws
They wasted it on stock buybacks and acquiring start ups that they went onto kill.
> She's still a tiny terrorist.

And any good parent knows, you don’t negotiate with terrorists!
The kernel is not exactly known for being drama-free, and this drama didn't start with "Rust people", it started with Christoph.
There are thousands of historic hackernews news items from MotherJones, which has a long history of serious news reporting, and this seems to be researched reporting as well.

I cannot understand the basis of your argument.
I just had to fire a remote worker for egregious and persistent timecard fraud. I was all about remote worker before that happened.
Tell that to the people who were displaced because of the accident, which of course, is proven truth. The last part of your statement is petty, based on ignorance of how life itself is extremely difficult to report after the fact when facts are so easily denied.
I can hold my government accountable via the polling booth

I have no control over Apple or Amazon or Alphabet. I can petition the government through the court system if it tries to put me in jail, the government functions with a massive series of checks and balances.

I can't petition google, they are an unelected uncontrollable unaccountable entity that not even the government has power over
Yes, the second case is a bug in the interface.

For the first case you have it the wrong way around. My generic code would work on things that are not numbers but I prevent you from calling it because I didn't anticipate that there would be things you can add that are not numbers. (Better example: require an array when you really only need an iterable).
I remember the glee I felt when I first used logarithms to represent large numbers in Excel. Suddenly, I could easily approximate large factorials, and they were fast! I wondered how many other people have discovered this trick. I couldn't find many references on the Internet. Over time, I realized this method of handling large numbers is used so often that most people who know about it don't bother to talk about it.
Completely false. Building from the actual source code is strongly preferred and usually easier than patching a binary that wasn't built for such an environment.