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They swapped out MIT [0] for BSD-3 just five months ago, which doesn’t seem to have been announced at all. Nixpkgs still has the 0.6.5 release as MIT, and 0.6.6 is in the AUR as MIT as well.

I wanted to be on the dev’s side here. CLA’s can be reasonable and I’ve happily let others convert my GPL code to them before. But reading the Open WebUI developer’s blog [1] makes it evident this isn’t really about the community — as he says, “It’s just me” and what he wants that matters for Open WebUI.

[0] https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/8468/files [1]: https://jryng.com/thoughts/my-purpose

That deconstruction pattern wouldn't be valid since it can only use `..` once per list. Very cool stuff though, thanks!

Their Cloud ToS forbids sharing performance information (section 3.3i), which in its most generous interpretation is meant to avoid the type of speculation in this thread. https://www.atlassian.com/legal/cloud-terms-of-service

But of the 850 people in the jail system that the EFF is talking about here, that means at least 4 people are innocent

Saying "at least 4" is pretty misleading here, since you're assuming the 0.5% is perfectly distributed. That estimate could be accurate without a single innocent in these specific 850.

The "5.8% more likely" statistic would be in comparison to the population rate, not the subgroup who aren't overweight or obese. That group would have a 1-(1-.78)/(1-.736) or 16% reduction in hospitalization rate in comparison to the population, resulting in a relative increase of ~27% if you compare these two groups.

I would describe that heuristic as Bayesian, since the subject evaluates the prior evidence for each option, and then chooses the one with the most supporting information, instead of considering the options' logical or mathematical properties.

NNs are not binary -- they're fundamentally analog, so for classification problems, they produce probabilities that a test case is in each possible class. A binary "X/not-X" test often comes from applying a threshold to the NN's output.

Quoting from the Universal approximation theory's Wikipedia, "neural networks can represent a wide variety of interesting functions." While they may be much better at pattern recognition, it's possible to produce almost anything with one, including Go moves, if you can devise a method to interpret the outputs.

from the perspective of security, usability, and especially structured data transfer it's terrible.

Email is basically free, works well for up to 5 megabytes of data, and data security isn't much of an issue for open source work. The post suggests quite a few tools that improve the Git-email workflow, and I think some do prefer those to certain web-hosted Git interfaces.

there's plenty of standard ways to transmit data that aren't SMTP

Are they free, federated, and as reliable as email? It may be inferior in some technical ways, but it's still a rational choice for small non-private data transfers, such as a Git patch or any another text.

Sure, it's a useful feature, but my password manager (1Password) already does it. I'm OK with testing out this extension regardless, but wouldn't be if I wanted to limit my data use like the post's author.

That post isn't explicitly about a Firefox Monitor extension, and I could only find this rollout to US users mentioned on 3rd party websites. Those posts include BugZilla links, but they're restricted.

I can easily disable Pocket, Autofill, and Screenshots in about:config, and Firefox support explains that. With this extension, I'm missing a "extensions.fxmonitor.enabled" option.

I understand it's good to build in optional security features like this, but I don't see how it's acceptable to not notify users or provide an opt-out.

I wasn't a fan of the UI refresh for the same reason, so I made my own alternate homepage which sorts the feed by artist and de-emphasizes reposts (http://gurlitz.org/soundcloud-digest/). Unfortunately like you said, content also dried up around the same time.

This goes back to the original file where it read "buried alive in email" in 1996 [1]. It changed to "buried alive in diapers" [2] from 97-99 before this last revision [3].

1: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v1.3/patch-html/patch-1.3.68/linux_MAINTAINERS.html

2: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.1/patch-html/patch-2.1.22/linux_MAINTAINERS.html

3: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.2/patch-html/patch-2.2.4/linux_MAINTAINERS.html

From Postal Overview.txt: "The game is built on top of our cross-platform library, called "RSPiX" (pronounced "risp-icks"). RSPiX is organized into several levels, from low-level to high-level functional. Each level is named after a color." (https://bitbucket.org/gopostal/postal-1-open-source/src/defa...)

In summary, blue provides graphics/audio/input functions, cyan is a UI framework (with printer support), and the distinctions between green and orange "become rather blurry at some points."

Sometimes it would misjudge an avoidable crash, though. When an accident includes a vehicle in front, the middle car is oftentimes liable for following too closely. It might seem logical, but that "safe acceleration" could cause a pileup, and push it into an intersection for example.

I think the consequences of this would be too significant for Tesla to silently implement. Given an unavoidable rear crash, it could cause a multi-car accident and increase the collision's severity relative to braking.

At first, ReCaptcha was used to transcribe books, and then in 2012 Google began to use it for street data. The GP is referring to its newest use, which is based on an image classification algorithm. Image search used to rely on nearby words on websites and in the URL, since computer vision was just a research technology.

Ironically, this new captcha has already been attacked using Google's own reverse image search: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-16/materials/asia-16-Siva...

This library does more than "random" testing: when it finds a failure, it will try to reduce the input (called "shrinking") to report a minimal example. Here are some similar tools for other languages: http://hypothesis.works/articles/quickcheck-in-every-languag...

When was this? I recall having to use Cocktail with OS X (10.2-10.9) because the system maintenance scripts would never run if my laptop was off/asleep at midnight. In general, Unix users have had to use cron scripts almost since its origin.

Dokan provides FUSE support going back to Windows 7. There are also paid solutions with ExpanDrive and Mountain Duck, but in my experience Dokan+WinSSHFS [0] is easy to setup and works great.

[0] https://igikorn.com/sshfs-windows-10/

The linked article on Der Spiegel has a section on what they call "persistence:"

The specialists at ANT, which presumably stands for Advanced or Access Network Technology, could be described as master carpenters for the NSA's department for Tailored Access Operations (TAO)... The ANT developers have a clear preference for planting their malicious code in so-called BIOS, software located on a computer's motherboard that is the first thing to load when a computer is turned on... This has a number of valuable advantages: an infected PC or server appears to be functioning normally, so the infection remains invisible to virus protection and other security programs. And even if the hard drive of an infected computer has been completely erased and a new operating system is installed, the ANT malware can continue to function and ensures that new spyware can once again be loaded onto what is presumed to be a clean computer. The ANT developers call this "Persistence" and believe this approach has provided them with the possibility of permanent access.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-ns...

This is newly on google.com for me today, probably for the submitter too: http://i.imgur.com/Xzvk6zj.png

This is solved by the union-based filesystem (AUFS) that Docker uses. You start with one minimal rootfs like you describe, given in the "base" image, then when you install sshd you get copy-on-write semantics. So the sshd container gets its own syslog files separate from any other container.

Your original comment talks about how long LXC has existed but AUFS is one key component of Docker that became part of mainline Linux much more recently.

The original mspaint.exe has survived all these years by running hassle-free on Wine and on new editions of Windows. But I wouldn't say MS abandoned Paint: Win8's "Fresh Paint" is one of the coolest touch-based apps out there: http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/11/15/behind-th...

WP8 is not a dominant operating system. Azure is not a dominant cloud infrastructure. Surface is not a dominant tablet.

The closest claim that was made to any of these was that WP8, Azure, and Surface Pro are "viable offerings" in their markets. Not that they're dominant. You even give an example of "folks who run big stuff on Azure" -- how is that not proof that Azure at least provides competition in the cloud services market?

Which was disabled starting with Lion in 2011 :)

It doesn't make sense for Nordstrom to hire a consultant for each underperforming store -- they can save money and make better decisions by using data collection technology. Anyone could go to a retailer on a slow afternoon, see open registers with no one in line, and determine that they could save money by having fewer cashiers. But having the data allows the company make those decisions with much more confidence.

With containers, Docker gave us universal compatibility for running software. A Dockerfile gives us universal compatibility for building and customizing our software. Docker needs some time for the community to grow and the documentation to mature, but once it does I think it will be difficult to imagine ever not having Docker. Docker is largely "batteries not included," and slowly getting more useful with improvements like this, bind mounts [1], and lots of users writing their own tutorials.

1: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/pull/602

A little background on the relationship of the authors to Google: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/google-jason-ma...

Must the prefetch/render tags be present at first load, or might they be added dynamically with JavaScript? Pagination is a good example, since a news site might want to load the second page of an article only after the user get so far in. Single-page sites are another good use case.

This could encourage people to use an encrypted messaging program that is closed-source, has a large attack surface, and that might not be patched if a flaw is found. So they do have some incentive to get people to use iMessage over something like Cryptocat.