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Tangential but this is misunderstood widely, so I cannot resist the urge to explain.

First of all, modules can not be installed in parallel [1].

Secondly, it is not a new technological development at all. Modules in essence are just a fancy version of maintaining multiple overlay repositories on top of your base distribution. Only difference is it adds a more streamlined usage to dnf. You could do the same thing 15 years ago with yum or apt by manually enabling/disabling repositories.

This is the easy part.

Real hard work that goes to modules is actually creating and maintaining those separate modules having separate versions of the same software stack. And that is the thing none of the distributions were willing to do until recently. Heck, maintaining multiple versions of the same library or the same program in a distribution release was a taboo. Distribution developers dreaded the idea of doing that and avoided it as possible as they can.

Jury is still out on how well it'll work in practice and how much useful it'll be (in that will maintainers be actually eager to do the hard work of maintaining multiple stacks in parallel, how long will they support each version or how many versions will they maintain in parallel etc.)

I have the best wishes Fedora developers with the modules idea and I hope it'll prove to be successful thus maybe other distributions would be more open to the idea in the future.

[1] > Modularity brings parallel availability, not parallel installability. Only one stream of a given module can be enabled on a system
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/architecture...
Magit: A Visual Walk-Through
Did you misunderstand the whole article? It did not vouch for populism in the least.
Obviously populism is the solution, but only if it’s on your side, otherwise it’s this nefarious out of control thing that perverts political systems and threatens democracy.

This author makes erroneous assertions along the way in support of their thesis. So I don’t think it holds much water.

Soros and the Kochs are some of the biggest political donors and influencers and while they donate massive amounts to progressive causes and libertarian values, they have very little interest in helping working class Americans.
Dual ethernet! 2-core/4-thread, max. 32GB RAM, HDMI & 2 Display Ports. 4.6" x 4.3" x 2.6"
Memory latency is one metric out of many.

For memory latency to matter, you need the worst case scenario to play out, which is a miss on all caches.

For cache to be made entirely irrelevant in performance, you'd need a situation where every access is a cache miss.

Yet even a pattern of completely random memory accesses will hit cache once in a while. And even then, a completely random access pattern is absolutely in disconnect with real world applications.

Thus, performance is not determined by memory latency. It is only a factor. And latency has actually improved, like other metrics, when compared to previous generations.

In short, wait for benchmarks. Just some three hours left for NDA lift.
Personal Kanban 101
A Nonlinear History of Time Travel (2016)
Ask HN: Help to Delete a Google Account?
I haven't used the account I had with Google for several years now. I just tried to delete it on https://myaccount.google.com/

I made sure there is no data in it ( there isn't, none, zero ) and when I went to delete it, it required me to fetch an Android device that no longer exists ( literally, was dismantled years ago for pieces ) to sign into it and get a code from it to continue.

This is very irritating. I do not use Google Services on Android or have any Google software installed anywhere. There's a "More ways to verify" link that circles back to the same long-dead device.

I tried to kill only the Gmail service for good, but even to do that ( as opposed to the whole Google account ) requires the same impossible step.

Any other obvious way to delete a Google account that I am missing ?
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I think that it is exciting that people are still working on Hurd and there is a new release synced with Buster. I think there is latent potential in microkernels and that we may actually be at in position to exploit some of the benefits such as heightened security and stability. While at the same time the performance cost of context switching could be reduced due to the higher number of cores on modern chips (especially compared to the hardware available in the 90s). One of the biggest adoption challenge any new operating presents is hardware compatibility and well a reason to try it. 80% software compatibility with Debian is a big accomplishment, so this is probably worth spinning up a virtual machine to play around with.
Ruby Together
How the brain remembers where you're going
Let me know if there's any good alternative to Udemy. I'm also working on publishing a course
There is Magit Forge which is not limited to Github https://github.com/magit/forge

If you are not familar with Magit, there is a screencast: Emacs Rocks! Episode 17: Magit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzQEIRRJ2T0
Using Bayes to check the numbers on Met’s police facial recognition technology
Does the machine itself deform while going through a curve?
Ask HN: What types of software have to be perfect?
For me this option is already available in the latest stable version of Firefox (67.0.4). I found it in "connection settings".
And it's WONTFIX:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1453207
Do we have any idea what the true cost of utility scale for Solar in Non Subsidies Hypothetical Optimal Condition, and Median Condition? Hypothetical assume the land is free, ( most of the dessert and direct sunlight places are cheap anyway. ). And what percentage of that cost contribute to Battery?
Debian Backports are a convenient way to get newer software on a stable system https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
"pip developer" probably means relative to the specific funding for pip development - very little - and not a full-time software engineering position.
Existing web servers such as Nginx are really good. I recommend (free)BSD as a web server, although it does have a learning curve - it is secure by default.
Legends: Starscream vs. Gollum – Metal Earth 3D Kits Assembly
Paypal strategy to get the ID:
1. Ask the user to sign up.
2. Pretend everything is complete.
3. Wait for the user to get a payment or money.
4. Block the account and ask for the ID.
You can also store pointers for more than 4 GB in a 32 bit address by compressing them.
Using stable Firefox 67.0.4 64-bit and this is right there on the options page in General/Network settings. Truth to be told, it will set network.trr.mode to 2, which falls back to normal DNS if anything is wrong, but nonetheless it's there.
Hong Kong protesters march again, hope to explain grievances to Chinese visitors
Actually the estimates are that the Irish coast alone has enough potential wind energy to power all of the planet, during peak seasonal wind, and at least all of Europe during the less windy summer season.

Building the infrastructure to transmit that power would be a massive undertaking though. Ireland and France are currently cooperating to build an undersea power cable which is going to cost $1Bn, take 5 years, run 575km and have an annual transmission capacity of 6.1 TWh.

Annual global energy usage in 2013 was 19,504 TWh, or 3,197 times that.
That's in libc. I guess that's below the application later, but doesn't some code elect to not use that, like go programs? I might be mistaken
Probably things like life support device firmwares, or like Boeing's recent software issue that may have been related to the deaths of those on the 737 max. Any software that has to do with life and death needs a certain high level of perfection to avoid calamity. That's just what I was thinking off the top of my head..
All forms of government have a good form and a destructive form. Democracy is rule of the mob if it tramples individuals liberty. An incompetent, selfish king is a tyrant, a good king that serves society can be highly effective and create a great society. As with all things, it is balancing the extremes as the mean between competing needs or interests is often the best outcome.
A neighborhood I lived in had a virulent social media & flyers campaign against a planned "24/7 commercial facility" (the ads never said what it was) that would cause gridlock, lower property prices and generally bring on the Apocalypse.

Turns out said facility was a small privately run aged-care home (the horror!), and the campaign was largely bankrolled by some local developers who would much have preferred to turn the waterfront lot in question into condos.
I think a distinction like that is the bare minimum if you intend to broadly distribute the text. Additionally, simply don't mention the word maximum until it's clear from context that you're talking about one component of many and that the overall system can be do better than the max of one component.

Just look at that opening sentence, it's really bad if the aim is to inform readers. It's great if it's intended to be self-aggrandizing marketing without consideration of how deceptive it can be to readers.

Any expert can trick uninformed readers into drawing misleading conclusions. If you want to be trusted as an expert, it's necessary to avoid doing that.

MIT is a pretty renowned brand it its own right - I think it's fair to demand better. This doesn't come across as trustworthy to me, anyhow.
Last article and discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643204

If you read the long text and the attached documents, there are multiple software, hardware and design issues detailed. Some deadly ones around acceleration about tasks scheduling and priority inversion, well known aspects of embedded real time software with known solutions to avoid them.

The lead is well buried. That's another obstacle with non-trivial debugging. Nobody has the attention span, the time and the knowledge to understand non-trivial bugs, let alone when they're intentionally kept in the dark and pressured by companies.
If that were such a big factor, then allowing guns wouldn't make a difference, as criminal could still choose to carry a knife for this reason.
>Methodology is flawed

The end product of those efficiency is still Twh. I don't see how the Methodology is flawed.
Why is this not part of the SRE hype train?!
FF is planning to add a paid VPN as a partnership. It will be a non-free, paid feature―possibly in a separate paid version of the browser (not sure if they really plan to make a whole separate FF).

It was in the news about a week ago.
Adding "fixes and improvements" to software haphazardly does not, in general, make it stronger. Quite often it can be the opposite.

Software projects need someone to maintain its course, make sure changes match the purpose of the software, and most importantly, reject changes that create a burden on the project.
Interestingly, the original definition of “left” and “right” came from the French Revolution where in the National Assembly the aristocracy sat on the right and everyone else sat on the left. That matches pretty closely to the oligarchy vs everyone else.
Show HN: TPM2137 – a CTF challenge showcasing FPGA bitstream reverse engineering
Before I ate Durian, it always smelled really bad to me. Now, it just smells strong.

The problem with buying it in the US is that the good ones cost $10/lb.
The true way of life is ensuring personal freedom. Any form of politics that involves taxes, regulations and social rules is simply another form of totalitarianism. States must be reduced and limited only to justice and national defense and let citizens follow their life projects. Since someone is awarded a title to spend the money of others, we already enter a left dynamic. The left will always sell you masked privileges in the form of rights. The right always sells you the basic anglosaxon conservative principles: life, liberty, property. It's up to you all to understand those differences.
I'm not convinced that's the same situation or if what you're describing is necessary in the majority of cases. Using the "correct" domain shouldn't be the norm - it should be an exceptional circumstance. As demonstrated in the above comment, it's easy to accidentally hit the production environment at which point you may be convinced that everything is alright and ship a broken change to production.
How about governments (counties/states) setting up areas that are memorial forests where people come and plant a tree or multiple trees for loved ones.

Encourage people to plant trees for previous generations of family members. And have small in memory of markers for each tree.
How so? Populism is by definition an ideologue of regular people against the elites. Or do you have your own definition of populism? Can I hear it?
Which microkernel based OSes are ccurrently deployed? Which of these are open source?
The economy does none of those things. What you are talking about is technological progress and money is just one of humanity's greatest inventions out of many.
> By the way, all passenger trains in Europe , China and Japan lose money too.

Not true. Russian passenger rail is profitable and growing.
Why Dark Gray Is Brighter Than Gray in CSS and JavaScript
What the parent poster means is that each application does its own DNS lookup separately and independently. The family of functions you linked to, plus the newer getaddrinfo family of functions, is implemented in the C library within each process, not as a system call or as a separate daemon. These functions read the /etc/nsswitch.conf file, load the C library plugins listed there, and call each one in sequence - still within the same process. The most common setting is a variation of "hosts: files dns", which first reads /etc/hosts, then reads /etc/resolv.conf and connects directly to the DNS servers listed there, without using any system level "DNS lookup" daemon (unless you have nscd enabled).
Was the interviewee Anand Giridharadas? I have been finding his takes particularly enlightening.
If the researchers intended audience was other experts, then this was the wrong channel to distribute the research.

Obviously this PR blurb was intended for a broad audience; that is why universities write and publish blurbs like this. And it's great that they try to make research a little more approachable!

But since it is intended fora broad audience this really is misleading. Probably not maliciously so; the job of a PR department is to make things sound great and impactful after all, and they did that. How much to you want to bet the most actual researchers would never have used words like this to describe their breakthroughs to non-experts they know and respect, at least not without really emphasizing what a "cell" is and is not?
I can't speak for the developer of Hurd.

But I think it's fun and something different.

It's one of the few OS up there that seems to be able to take advantage of multicores.

Other such as barrelfish and dragonflyBSD.
I have been running Stretch without systemd very happily, and I believe that should still work with Buster, at least for server uses. (It is harder to avoid Gnome and systemd on desktop setups with dynamic network / power / device reconfiguration.)
U, Robot.
I think that Chomsky quote is decades old.
After the news about pip being maintained by 5 people, I wonder how many are working on hurd. (As a grown adult, I also envy and more than a little humbled by their ability to devote time to it.)
Just to clarify: it wasn't bad-faith, I was just (trying to be) sarcastic, as most of the store-bought food nowadays "may contain traces of nuts and/or eggs and/or celery" etc.
those people's "left" ideology is more like fashion trend. As progressive, well, when you don't have any financial issues you can pretend you are uber-ecologist eg. buying expensive organic food instead of canned/frozen sh*t for the plebs
Tree hierarchies for tags is starting to sound a lot like categories. It's probably essential not to overdo it because then you start to lose the power of tags and gain the detriments of categories. That said, I do think that introducing some limited relations between tags can be beneficial.
Answering myself and for anyone else who might benefit.

I thought I had reviewed ALL options in the Google account's data section in these past few hours, but there was an old device still listed under devices that I needed to remove just now.

Removing it did away also with the requirement to use it when deleting the account.

Good riddance !
That is a good point I did not think about at all, even though it is probably one of the most universal consequences of pain, even - at least to some extend - carrying over to emotional pain. The first question I had - even if not really relevant for the topic - is what the reason might be. My bust guess would be conservation of resources and at least in some situations avoiding further damage. Also in some situations the reaction is at least initially the opposite, to suppress the pain and increase performance to help getting out of the situation.

But more relevant to the topic, while generally reduced performance is strongly related to pain, I have no problem imaging a robot exhibiting degraded performance due to damage in somewhat unrelated functions for the purpose of resource conservation or something along that line. It could even be a kind of overreaction - if the damage and its consequences are not well known, then be conservative and reduce performance in general. But while building something like that into a robot makes it behave more like a human, I am pretty sure that this is not what people usually think of when they say that they feel pain, i.e. most people would still say that the robot still does not really feel pain.
That definitely sounds like Anand.
KDE Usability and Productivity: Week 78
> This Chomsky quote comes to mind “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”. The sad part is that a lot of people seem to be addicted to the right vs left thinking.

What this is more broadly is the Overton Window. There is "acceptable" topics that can be broached.

As for Right versus Left, well that is 1 dimension politically. There is for example authoritarian / libertarian scale. So many political tests have the "Quad" or "Compass". Most people normally score around the middle.

However there are 4 dimensional tests such as this.

https://8values.github.io/

I have no idea how accurate these are, or whether they are biased. But there is certainly much more than left vs right.

> A while ago I listened to a radio interview with an author whose thesis was that modern philanthropists allow change only in a way that doesn’t threaten their own wealth and power. This definitely rings true.

Well what you are talking about is the idea of hyper-normalisation. The idea is that you finance both sides e.g. pro fascist, anti-fascist etc. This creates a state of confusion where people don't really know what is going on and become apathetic to it.

Adam Curtis made a documentary about it, however here is a snippet from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=wcy8uLjRHPM
Sciter has very likely the right approach : HTML/CSS for the GUI, native languages for the logic.

However it has one major issue : it's proprietary... And that's a no go for many project / companies.

I would not make my entire business depend on a blob which I have no control on it.
Or preservation of the planet we require to run capitalism in the first place.

I feel as though this realisation was made among certain people (probably a surprising number of them) decades ago.

The more power and influence you have, the less you are inclined to change anything.

Therefore, capitalism, if unregulated, must inevitably lead to the extinction of humankind.

Figuring out how to act as "one" on certain matters (rather than a bunch of seven billion merciless competitors who will stop at nothing to get one up on their neighbour), such as climate change, will be the greatest and most decisive challenge humanity will ever face.

It'll be interesting to see where that goes.
Are Our Minds Just Our Brains?
Progressive in that they are pro-life, fine with gay marriage, and pay lip service to environmental concerns.

They are not going to be progressive in the sense of forwarding pro-social, anti-corporate policies.

You seem to be taking within the narrowly defined USA Overton window.
Who says we benefit from a stable environment?

As TFA says, we're highly adaptable omnivore generalists. We thrive on change, adapt to it quickly. We live in every single land-based biome in the world (and may be the only large life form to do so).

Wishing for everything to be stable in a chaotic system like the Earth is futile. Instead, we have evolved to be antifragile and thrive on constant change.
Thank you for the clarification. I didn't realize fruit means grows.
I wonder how they came up with this name. Samizdat was a form of illegal self-publishing in USSR
me too. I suspect that because it's contradicting the "biodiversity is best" consensus, it gets auto-downvotes.
true, good point. I would rephrase it, but I think it's sufficiently clear as is, if we accept that there is no actual "winning" involved here as you point out.
Could This Be the End of Frankincense?
Edit: No it does not. The cue format I am referring to here was published by CDRWIN developers. Later also used by ExactAudioCopy, Ahead Nero and all other relevant CD-R burning software at the time, and currently as well.
But you are still using 32 bit registers so your load and save instructions can't really make use of compressed addresses
American wars are illegal even by American law standards.

There is no declaration of war that makes what America is doing in Niger legal, by American legal standards. There certainly isn't any legal cover for America's illegal occupation of Syria. Not to mention, support for genocide in Yemen is absolutely illegal.

Its just that the people remain ignorant of this fact - and its politicians - choose not to enforce those laws for their own purposes (war profit, intolerance, hatred, etc.)
Except maybe birds. In a study recently published in the journal Nature Communications, Plummer found that people are seeing a more diverse array of bird species in backyards now than they did in the 1970s. And this change has coincided with the evolution of the birdfeeder market.
Can it import from current file magic? ID3? CDDB? IMDB?

You see, it is a big effort to manually input all this data.

What is useful is reliable, public source entries.

You also want a documented data format for future compatibility. So you can migrate to the next format.

This furthermore gives the advantage that applications can use the metadata. Although I suppose the file system abstraction achieves the same?
It is unfortunate the comment was not downvoted and stays there that spreads wrong information.
Interesting. Do you know more about what’s going on here? As in, why the results don’t match expectations.
I can only see this ending one way. Sooner or later China will apply its laws to Hong Kong.