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> Here lies humanity, they tried to do the same things 15 different ways and squandered their resources doing so.

Polities that don't retain control over their computing infrastructure will in the future have effectively ceded independence to others.

Because controlling the full stack from silicon to cloud services is expensive (fabs can cost c. $20 billion), this has geo-political implications: namely that in the future there will only be a small number of loci of independent power. The USA will be one, China another. Does Europe want to make itself a third, or will it be content to be subservient to others?
From my experience, the hardcore Unix folks should stick to jobs that highlights that type of knowledge. If you join an AWS shop, you're never going to dig into low level things like the proc filesystem, and the arcane knowledge of knowing every single tool just isn't used. I've gone from remoting into machines on the daily, to not using SSH for almost a year now. Just depends on the job I suppose. Went from having knowledge of all the different signals, and getting really good at tcpdump/gdb, to just writing Terraform/CloudFormation scripts, and nuking an instance from orbit if there were any issues with it. Such a different workflow.
Yeah, this is definitely not an easy problem to solve given the design of Linux.

I don't know why I didn't remember this earlier, but I actually explored this a number of years ago and came up with two things that are close, but not quite there:

First was to use a systemd automount unit[0], but I didn't really get anywhere with it. From the looks of it you have to know all the possible things you could want to automount, it can't do wildcards. Being able to do some kind of pattern matching on the requested path and translate that into a mount command would go a long way to making this work.

I also explored the good old automounter[1][2], but it has a lot of the limitations that systemd's does. It does have the advantage of supporting host maps, which gets me a bit closer to what I'm looking for. The unfortunate thing that remains is that this is NFS instead of a modern protocol. If this were somehow backended on sshfs, I suspect it would be quite useful. Of course, sshfs is missing the concept of shares but that's not a showstopper by any means. Authentication becomes a problem since the automounter probably can't ask the user for a password, and may not even know which user is requesting the mount.

I have no idea how well either will work in practice. Modern Linux on the desktop is a very different environment than the one the automounter and NFS were built for. The systemd automounter looks like it serves a very specific purpose and can't currently do what I want.

Maybe all we really need is a modernized automounter and/or some extra features in systemd's automounter. These could lead to to "vi /net/server/share/file.txt" working as expected which, quite honestly, is basically the same as what I suggested earlier.

[0] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.aut...

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/8/automount

[2] https://linux.die.net/man/5/auto.master
Wait, target plays music? I've literally never noticed and I was just in one last night. Only thing I've heard is their movies section playing teasers pretty loudly.
Absolutely we can, the problem is that the California Rail project was a boondoggle from the start.
Fender showcased how much they use AWS at the recent re:Invent. They moved more services to AWS, while still increasing usage, and still reduced their AWS spend. Because it sounds like they did it the right way and used AWS services effectively.

I've spent a lot of time helping web developers, that don't have a ton of infrastructure experience, that get into AWS and they almost always do it the wrong way (the most expensive way). As in, they take whatever they were running on-premise and just throw it on EC2.
I'm learning, but can't do this in a day or a month you know?

Ich kann Deutsche sprechen, aber ich bin langsam und nicht so gut. Leute haben oft keine Geduld, wenn man langsam ist.
"Although it can usually work if all you have is the video file, it will be faster (and potentially more accurate) if you have a correctly synchronized "reference" srt file, in which case you can do the following:

subsync reference.srt -i unsynchronized.srt -o synchronized.srt"

I really don't understand what the reference.srt is supposed to be here.

Edit: If I have a "reference" which is synchronized why do I have to do anything at all? Why would I need to synchronize anything then?

Edit2: If the French titles are a translation of the English ones, how wouldn't copying the timestamps from one to another be enough? Or do you want to say that the program can match the subtitles which aren't based on the English ones and have different number of sentences etc? But how can it then know which part of translation belongs to what? What's short in one language isn't in another etc.
Wow! This is a fantastic project. Does anyone know how or if it would be possible to take one of these creations and embed them on another site?
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There are pretty substantial differences between AMPS and NMT, GSM and CDMA, EV-DO and EDGE.

CDMA for example was designed to evolve from AMPS (so was D-AMPS or TDMA, which was another 2g technology), so you could put CDMA and Analog carriers in the same site infrastructure. The 'nG' label is virtually meaningless is most discussions. It also leaves out discussion of PHS, and others, which were clearly 2g technologies.
I wouldn't be so sure.

While I agree that the scope of a twelve year old's power is limited, children can be unimaginably cruel.
This post resonates a lot with me, in particular items 7 and 2. I subscribed to your newsletter and am looking forward to future content!

That being said: in my personal experience, having an intellectual understanding of something (like emotional triggers being unintegrated memories) provides some brief relief, but rarely helps me make behavioral or emotional changes in the long run.
From your point of view, what is the relation of knowing vs experiencing in making progress towards emotional resilience, and what techniques can you recommend for the experiencing aspect?
> We will probably soon build the electronic computer which will, from the perspective of the humans communicating with him, indeed behave "as a conscious person": soon we won't need you to write the answer you wrote, the computer will be able to make even better one.

This is wrong. We are absolutely nowhere near anything even remotely resembling this.
A couple of years ago I wrote a feed reader which would check every hour for new items in a few hundreds feeds. This script was running on a $5/mo server(initially it ran of an old laptop I had for easier debugging) and it would post the the new data to the database located on the website server. So I was using two machines, one for the crawler and one for the website, and two databases too I think. The one for the feed crawler was very simple with only the list of urls and the latest item url, so I don't show it again. That was the theory, at least, feeds are a bit more complicated in real life.

That's what I did, but I might have had different requirements. If you don't have a lot to crawl and you don't have to do it very often(once a week or less), you can probably space out the requests enough so that the server doesn't feel it. It helps a lot if you use some caching as well for the website itself in this case. I think it depends a lot on the requirements of the project. But using two machines is safer I think, although it might complicate things a bit.

Keep in mind that there's probably better technical advice out there than mine. I'm a hobbyist developer.
> A key element is making capital gains taxation more like ordinary income (some have suggested making them the same) and having an estate tax more like we had in the past (55% above $3.5M)

From the exact same answer.
All of the core.async operations having blocking versions (eg. >!! vs. >!) which means you can use your own threads/thread pools for any work, if needed. Basically, you create your own threads instead of using go blocks and then use the blocking operations, >!!, <!!, alts!!, alt!!, etc.
Its very interesting to me that you have achieved the financial success that many dream of, which could allow you to retire and do what the heck you like for the rest of your life. But somehow it didn't bring total happiness, so you have actively gone on a mission to seek that out.

Maybe that is a warning sign for many people aspiring to make money, that even fully loaded you still have to deal with your own brain. Knowing how your own brain works and how to make yourself happy is a very important skill.
But I accept that it’s a fringe position, though a completely tenable and consistent one.

Acceptance of child porn isn't tenable, that literally creates a market for rape. Sure, you may be believe markets are an unstoppable force in human nature and that suffering is inevitable, but those are just the axiomatic beliefs you've chosen to subscribe to. If you don't care about the imposition of suffering on others that these entail, are you willing to accept the same degree of insecurity for your own person?
no doubt your brazen cavalier attitude towards corporate rules were the prime reason behind radio shack's downfall. corporate had it just right, except for those pesky employees failing to follow their edicts. Good thing you're using a pseudonym!
This product category solves a huge problem for me.

Sometimes you know you'll be sitting down for 5+ min and a larger format is just more useful, whether it's for reading with bigger fonts, shopping with more items displayed per page or just for accessing non-mobile-crippled websites like GitHub.

Tablets are like dedicated cameras of the photography world. They might be good at it but it's useless if it's not on you. You don't want to carry a second device. Tablets still can't handle multi-users and you want a personalized experience. You don't want multiple tablets at home. There's no continuity unless there's some drastic change in OSes and we go back to the Novell terminal model of computing. I want to have the exact tabs opened with the text fields I'm halfway through typing. You want a single device to charge. A single device that's paired with the bluetooth peripherals etc etc.

Phones already don't fit in pockets and can't keep getting bigger. Developers are already not making native desktop apps except the heaviest class productivity types.

I applaud developments in this direction.
that's racist. Haha.
Thank you for your advices. About wordthink.com, I'm French so it might not work for me, but I'll search for a French alternative, it might exists.

More globally, your advice of thinking shorter and waiting before speaking might be some key in helping me.

Thanks :)
No. We already have a complete nematode implemented as a computer program. We already have a realistic simulation of the living creature.

Twenty years ago the current output of Google Translate was a pure science fiction, compared to what it was possible then. Today it already often translates better than a lot of humans knowing both languages. Had anyone seen the output of Google Translate of today some 20 years ago, nobody would have believed it was produced by the machine. Note I don't say that it's always good. It's not. But it can produce amazing outputs already, which can't be recognized to be produced by a computer.

Also read about AlphaZero:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero#Training

"AlphaZero was trained solely via self-play, using 5,000 first-generation TPUs to generate the games and 64 second-generation TPUs to train the neural networks. In parallel, the in-training AlphaZero was periodically matched against its benchmark (Stockfish, elmo, or AlphaGo Zero) in brief one-second-per-move games to determine how well the training was progressing. DeepMind judged that AlphaZero's performance exceeded the benchmark after around four hours of training for Stockfish, two hours for elmo, and eight hours for AlphaGo Zero."

Apparently, the computer learned chess better than the long developed programs by only playing the game with itself for four hours! And the programs are already better than humans there.
There's an extra point with notices: they are likely to lead to logical errors instead of technical ones. The algorithm works, but it receives a garbage value (null aka zero, usually). So it gives some garbage as a result. In nine cases, resulting garbage goes further into various barely meaningful code, but in one it will go into some user-facing functionality, including handling of money.
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I think the one near my office in the US has its own Spotify playlist that they use in store. I am pretty sure they had a link to it or something on the wall if you wanted to follow. I'm going to have to try and remember to look again next time I go in.
Digital extortionist offer high six-figure salaries to accomplices
Bill, thanks to you for Microsoft and to
you and Melinda on health.

For Climate Change, your position is
wildly destructive and based on just
sewage instead of science. Net, CO2 has
essentially nothing to do with the
climate. The main driver of climate
change for 1+ million years is just
changes in the rates of sun spots.
Period. Nice details from some real
experts, e.g., Lindzen at MIT, are
summarized in the quite good video at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Mx0_8YEtg

"The Great Global Warming Swindle". Take
an hour to watch that and save your
efforts on Climate Change and stop your
highly destructive efforts against CO2.
Sorry 'bout that.

Just consider the video and its
information.

But for more, on the science, there were
some models and predictions of big
increases in temperature. The big
increases were supposed to have happened
already. They never happened at all.
Details of predictions versus real
observed are summarized, with the dozens
of individual predictions named (in small
print!) in

http://www.energyadvocate.com/gc1.jpg

In science, we have to make good
predictions. When we make bad
predictions, we junk the candidate
science. So, we have to junk the
candidate science of the climate models in
that graph. Net, we are left with no
meaningful science that CO2 from humans or
anything else is causing significant or
even measurable climate change or ever
will. Some of Lindzen's remarks in the
video explain more. Net, in total, we
have to junk any threat from CO2.

Fighting Climate Change is not worth even
10 cents -- that the alarmists want to
throw $trillions at it is a grand disaster
for civilization, in particular for the
poor people you and Melinda are trying to
help.

Look at the evidence and think again.
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...also loans (in the USA) are determined on the size of the house as collateral. You are incentivized to buy a large house and small land. I would rather buy large land and a small house so that I can grow more food, trees, other natural resources. Our family has no need for a large house and they are inefficient to cool and heat.
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Hot take: Bill Gates is massively underrated today, compared to how he will be viewed by history.

When the reckoning of history books happens, I could see him in the running for “most positive social influence of anyone 1800-2100”.

His humanitarian work is second to none and we can expect 20+ more years of his direct influence on global policy. The world is a better place thanks to Mr and Mrs Gates.
It is called leading by example.

If you drive 35, and you're legally allowed to, all cars behind you will also drive 35 when they reach you. Unless they can and may pass you.

Like I said, leading by example. People copy other people's behavior.
Not disagreeing with you, but cautioning; I wouldn't read any grand lessons into the failure of CA HSR, except as they pertain to California's dysfunctional politics. Comparison to Hoover Dam (federally funded) isn't apples-to-apples.

A comparison to the giant boondoggle that was Boston's Big Dig might be warranted, except that the Big Dig actually produced something that millions of people use on daily basis.
I am also a believer in getting out of crappy situations, for example a bad job. Sure you can meditate to calm yourself down every day, but sometimes the situation needs to change.
What annoys me about this sentiment is that I was never a hipster, or posh, or greedy. I got priced out from anything decent all the same, while my hipster friends got rich. People aren't flocking to cities because they are entitled, though some might be, but because there are no good alternatives in most countries.
If you don't drive drunk, what do you lose from starting the engine via breathalyzer, rather than via key turn? Why is one more intrusive than the other? Most governments already require you to carry insurance, have a license/training to drive, wear seat belts -- in what way is this different?
And "scarlet" doesn't originally mean "red". Thanks, 99% Invisible podcast!
There’s quite a strong drive underway now to increase construction, and thanks to some rather bad political decisions 70 to 20 years ago, there are quite a few lots available for it.

The pipeline from planning to construction is a bit long and most of the projects are still a year or two away from breaking ground, but it is coming. There isn’t too much NIMBY opposition to housing, with the notable opposition of one successful referendum banning the re-zoning of (parts of) old Tempelhof airport.
How does efficiency vary with clock speed? Can you "just" underclock chips to get high efficiency?
PTSD is not an issue of attitude while your description of post traumatic growth is nothing but attitude. The two are incomparable.

The actual benefit of what you describe as growth is quite low to offset clinical PTSD which affects life quite a lot.
Maybe not in the individual instance, but in the aggregate, sure you will.

Humans eat foods that reward them, because that's how dopamine works. We've figured out how to optimize the rewards, too: Salt. Fat. Sugar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)
I have a trackpoint on my HP EliteBook G7, but they didn't include a middle button. So there's no way to scroll without using the scrollbar. I have to wonder if there's a patent reason or something because it seems like such a huge oversight.
Public transportation in Berlin is good, very good - it is the alternative that’s actually better. And the city does not have gravitating center for commuters - at least not the same way as other big cities: office density in Mitte or Kreuzberg is nothing compared to Manhattan or Moscow-City.
I do wonder why conceptually, the bezel can't be just tensioned along one axis instead of being fixed. Sure more movements will be a nightmare for dust/waterproofing etc but there's no indication that this device is anyway.
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Looks to me like a Docker style business model by packaging stuff that exists.
This assumes some type of array-backed tree, rather than a pointer / node implementation. In that case, level order usually requires pushing child nodes onto a queue or something similar, which I personally always find tedious by comparison to simpler traversals.
I would assume that since McKinsey is a consulting firm primarily they don’t have to comply with the same regulations that a bank does.
x86-32 bit though, which is getting dropped more and more lately...

I had that very machine with 1 GB RAM (though with a SSD, its SATA1 (!!)). Couldn't run GNOME 3 on it, but more lightweight stuff like XFce ran great.

It also can't do VMs well since it lacks the hardware extensions, and it can't do Docker either.

The only good about it was the rfkill, the chasis, the ThinkPoint, the detachable battery, the price, the keyboard, and Coreboot.

It has more USB ports than my current MBP which also lacks rfkill and doesn't have a detachable battery though the trackpad is the best (2015 version).
This is exactly why I always used to pay extra for the TurboTax desktop edition (I say "used to" because I ended up ditching TurboTax entirely a couple years ago, but that's another story). It's worth it to me to pay a little extra to reduce the number of entities that have this kind of data stored, and it appears that bet has paid off in this case.
Fluorescent light is typically low quality.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-plague-of-pi...
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O/T but people do the same thing with light, as well. e.g. just had a nighttime flight (so they turn off the cabin lights) where the person diagonally in front of me blinded me with his 100% brightness screen for hours.

Couple that with the countless people using their phones at max brightness, and I would've just preferred keeping the cabin lights on.
If you do much video or file transfer, you'll easily go over the 1TB you get with your $5 Digital Ocean droplet.
not to mention that the dominant JSON parser used to be called Poison.
Well, one is a surveillance company that's always trying to get more data on people. One is a privacy-focused company with no stated interest in that. Both are in surveillance states with cooperation agreements. FastMail has the edge here short- and long-term.

Ideal case is one end-to-end protected in a country with stronger, legal protections for customers. ProtonMail fits that bill but lacks maturity. Some of us want our mail to definitely be delivered with a provider that will stick around long time. FastMail has the edge there over ProtonMail.
What about picking jobs from an SQL-table as writing back with a check? I naver had any of the problems specified on a multi-core/process system.. or have I just been lucky or blessed by ignorance?
Would it be theoretically possible to have a time based on the universes rate of expansion?
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Ask HN: Any way to curate YouTube videos for children?
What I mean by this, are there any apps where I can either whitelist creators / channels or individual videos? Is that possible?
Did it ever mean something else? :P
I've since learned that :) What can I say. I was a n00be, from Windows. And I should add that Debian terminal had no problem with 10^4 or even 10^5 files per directory.

For what it's worth, I was massaging several GB of Newsgroup data into SQL. As I recall, I used grep to decompose the data into components. I crunched one year segments. For each year, each type of header, and message bodies, went into a subdirectory, tagged with the message ID. So in each of those subdirectories, there was one file for each message in the data segment. I did it that way, because each type of component needed custom regex to become SQL fields. In the end, the header types and message bodies became tables, indexed and linked by message IDs.

So anyway, there were lots of temp files.

Why did I do that? You might ask. Well, there was this notorious troll, who was on a vendetta against friends and I. He didn't just post trash. He spoofed our messages, making fun of us, and trying to sow discord. So it was virtually impossible to filter out his shit.

So basically I identified many of his personas, going back a decade or two. And eventually I found posts that included unobscured IP addresses and meatspace email addresses. So I emailed him, and threatened to dox him, if he didn't stop trolling us. So he did. And I never actually doxxed him, because that would have violated his privacy.

It was Ari Silverstein, by the way.[0] None of my personas posted there, but people were aware of my work.

0) https://www.velocityreviews.com/threads/tracking-ip-addresse...