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That sometimes it's just not necessary ? The main advantage IMO seems to be security (i.e., you can verify that a given build environment produced exactly the same binary that you downloaded, so the NSA or FSB probably hasn't embedded a Trojan in it). If you need this, then you obviously need reproducible builds.

The other advantages and why you may not need them :

- build acceleration : There are ways to do this without caching binaries. Incredibuild, for example does an excellent job (at least on Windows. Haven't used their Linux version). It costs money, so you have to figure out your priorities there. In my experience their support is excellent and it usually works very well.

- Storage savings : The premise here is that if a binary hasn't changed, there is no need to store it again with a new build. Maybe I'm getting rid of my old builds every 30 days (or whatever) so I don't really care about this either.

Absolutism is silly. You should analyze the advantages and costs of doing something instead of doing it because Google (or insert SV darling here) does it.
That's unfortunate. I have RSI in both my hands and throat and something like this would really be a life changer.
Yeah absolutely. The diamond industry is a good pre-internet example.
Laptop model: Huawei Matebook Pro
CPU: i7-8550U
RAM: 16GB
Screen: 3000x2000 13.9 in screen
Personal comments

I tend to be picky over hardware and prefer windows for personal use (just habit since I've used it for over eons)

I wanted a 4 core chip and until 8th gen, they were mostly 35W+ chips. I had a surface prior and loved the 3:2 aspect ratio so that was a must as well...an option that's severely limited my choices.

It came down to the surface laptop (thicker bezels, no dgpu and Intel still cant make a good dgpu to save their lives) or the Matebook.

I've accepted that windows laptops (and the OS) are still years away from the fluidity of using a touchpad on a macbook with virtual desktops and animation fluidity but overall, it's been a fantastic purchase form the MS store with great battery life and the portability I want in a ... well, portable device.

My ideal device is still 8 cores (15W or less with room to consume 25W across a couple of cores), 13.9 - 16" screen in a 14" laptop form-factor, 8hr + battery life with weighing about 3lbs or less...
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Tired of Stack Overflow
It was originally about stopping backdoors done post-compile but before software delivery. They were specifically worried about attacks like Paul Karger's compiler-compiler attack that Ken Thompson made famous. The thing is, almost all attacks are in the code, configuration, etc with transport security and reputation covering most of the risk they're trying to address. It's enormous effort with tiny security gain. I explain here:

https://lobste.rs/s/7zbbzr/reproducing_linux_builds_firefox_...

Another argument is that reproducible builds, at least the final form being reproducible, creates a monoculture that lets people be hit with exploits more easily. Cutting-edge research in CompSci has produced numerous techniques to use compilers to automatically secure source either by addressing root causes (eg Softbound + CETS) or obfuscating the program (eg instruction set randomization by Barrantes et al.). The latter methods are affected in that the hashes won't match when it's working. If you're trying to understand, they usually do things similar to the kinds of mitigations in OpenBSD (below) just with compilers. Personally, the state of software security would make me prioritize running it through a hardening tool over it being reproducible.

https://www.openbsd.org/security.html

The main way reproducible builds help is with debugging. Design-by-contract with runtime checks on can do that, too, on top of a lot of other benefits. They can have a debug version with checks on that people use just for diagnosing problems. At this point, reproducible builds might be easier than getting that going, though, due to all the work already put it. It also looks like some compiler modifications upstream could help a lot, too.

http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer/publications/computer/contract.pdf

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/contracts/

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/pbt-contracts/
Intel’s LGA4189-4 and LGA4189-5 for Cooper Lake and Ice Lake CPUs Now Available
Haha a good way to think about it, it is true its a good way, but really only here on HN.
I mean they obviously aren't doing this with the intention of having people actually take advantage of this speed on the road. The whole point is to build a vehicle which can go these kinds of speeds with the added constraint that you must be able to drive it on the road. Not everything people do or create has to be for purely practical purposes, that would be boring.
Unpopular opinion: markdown is mostly useless, and plain text is better nearly in all cases.

As a corollary, markdown so complex that is unreadable before being "rendered" is worse than useless.
No software engineer in the US makes half of 55k
My team actually implemented this feature in a large booking.com competitor and the numbers were in fact correct - we didn’t just pull them out of thin air.
Press-pulse: a novel therapeutic strategy for the metabolic management of cancer
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Not a bad idea but only if the tracks are independent. Was reading something saying that these tracks aren’t different random realizations of the same simulation (in which case what you’re saying is a good way to estimate the posterior of the hurricane track — it’s just Monte Carlo) but that these tracks come from many different types of simulations, some with higher quality than others and they’re likely all correlated in some weird way. If it’s the latter case there has to be some care and thought put into combining the predictions into a single estimate of the posterior.
Not sure this is a GMail feature. This would technically be possible with any HTML link styled like a button.
What would be some fundamentals you can recommend that's not new frameworks with unpredictable lifespan?
>>My old gaming machine had a i5-7400, and in pretty much every game the CPU bottleneck has disappeared

I'm not being funny - have you ever found any kind of bottleneck with that CPU? I'm still rocking an i7-4970K + 1080Ti and I have never ever seen the CPU being anywhere close to max load in any game, and I'm mostly playing in 1440p@60fps.
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How to Get Succeed and Get Our Goals in Life by Guruji Mritunjoy
https://mritunjoy.com/blog/72/How-to-get-succeed-and-get-our...
Would OpenID Connect not satisfy this requirement? It's an authentication wrapper of OAuth2
Convenient Method for Explicit Lazy Loading in Entity Framework Core (Or EF6)
In the Nix store (/nix):

% which cp
/run/current-system/sw/bin/cp

Each package has its own path in the nix store:

% readlink $(which cp)
/nix/store/l96gc2qb8ysnf5hcq1hp5a3r6x905rf4-coreutils-8.31/bin/cp

The current system and previous systems also live in the store (Nix has atomic upgrades/rollbacks). Each system can be seen as a package with symlinks to binaries, man pages, etc. in the store. More information about the motivation behind Nix's approach can be found in Nix Pill 1:

https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/why-you-should-give-it-a-t...
What Makes Node.js Great
Can you imagine any situation at all where you would side with this position?

There ought to be many real-life example of the trolley problem.
I still haven't found the patience to master Gimp the way you have mastered Photoshop :\
Not all developers want to be managers, and that's OK
Kind of funny to see that Hacker News gets worst ranking there :-)
Centre for Studies of Climate Change Denialism
I read it 15 years or so ago and it seemed to be mostly about meditation and 'animal magnetism'. It was obviously written by someone a bit too enthusiastic about a few too many fringey things. But it's interesting that meditation (or mindfullness) has still got buzz around it now whereas Animal Magnetism has been out of fad for so long I'd never heard of it.
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Laptop model: Lenovo Thinnkpad T460P

CPU: I7-6820HQ quad core 8MB L3 cache

RAM: 32GB

Screen: 3K matte

Personal comments: has integrated intel 530 and Geforce 940MX 2GB graphics. so far haven't used GeForce but got it just in case. upgraded from 8 to 32GB and added M.2 SSD in first month of ownership. New from Lenovo, paid $200 for 3 year battery coverage, had new battery sent year 2 and nearing end of warrenty, asked for 3rd battery from warranty so paid for itself. purchased dock for $25 off ebay (very good dock). used docked 90% of the time. first machine purchased for personal use at home in about 10 years. excelent keyboard. exact layout I prefer after swap CTRL and FN keys in bios for botttom left of keyboard)

Cons: screen is a tad dark in bright environments, ok otherwise. even with power levels turned way down (CPU, screen, etc) still not a long laster on battery power. No USB3?

final: for $400 used on ebay, I would snap this thing up in an instant and expect to run it for 5 more years. solid workhorse if you arn't hauling it around the world. for world traveler with wimpy arms would have looked harder at the X1 carbon.
There's one more: Suggesting that you lose benefits in a subscription business right away, when in reality, they run until the "contract" ends. Culprit: Amazon Prime. I just checked and they're still doing it (on Amazon.de).

If you try to cancel your Prime Membership, they make it sound as if you lose all benefits right away, even though I pre-paid for the entire year and my membership will end with the billing period and not before.
> Now we make women work for money

Or you could say that women choose to work for money.
The concept of single earner households can indeed work very well, but it has to be a choice of those involved regardless of gender. There are other possible arrangements, too: more communal living, part-time work, inter-generational arrangements, for example. And a true UBI.
As a society we generally seem to be OK with allowing a few people to be hurt or killed in exchange for a type of entertainment. For example if you are a race car driver, you are certainly increasing your risk of dying, and increasing the risk of killing spectators or other people on the racetrack, but we accept that because it is entertaining. Now I think it is a problem if people are driving a Bugatti recklessly on the roads and endangering others who are just driving around, but I think you are just as dangerous in one of the many cars which can go almost 200 mph as you are in a car that can go 300mph, since it is pretty difficult to approach 200mph on a public road.
For anyone interested in this story and more you should check out Michael Pollan’s book How To Change Your Mind.

It goes into quite a bit of depth on how this story came to be, the motivations, impact to culture as well as the impact to the indigenous tribe(primarily a single woman) that allowed LIFE magazine to cover this ritual.

Beyond psilocybin he covers the history of LSD, DMT and some more obscure psychedelics I hadn’t heard of.

If you have no knowledge or experience with psychedelics but want to understand why they became popularized and then demonized I recommend the book highly.
Marketing aside: Is the gaming IPC that /practically/ relevant? I mean, I'm gaming on a early-2012 Sandy Bridge CPU (Xeon E3-1235 aka "cheap i7-2600"), and it feels like my late-2013 R9 290 is the limiting factor these days, not the CPU.

And I am actually considering to combine my NAS and workstation/gaming rig into one "big" Ryzen 3xxx or 3rd gen TR machine and banish it into the basement. Bonus: The NAS finally gets ECC, and if I put in my old GPU and a new GPU, I can have two VMs for game streaming (tried parsec this weekend, and it was really nice!). Only drawback I can see is that I'd have to carry the rig upstairs once every blue moon when I play VR games.
Nielsen tracking – opt-in to opt-out
I get that the Porches in races are not exactly like the Porches on the street.

But how does that work for Bugati, Ferrari, Lamborghini (and McLaren, Pagani, Koenigsegg)? Are the street cars (more or less) the same as the ones in races? Do they even race?

And in conclusion, how accurate is the statement that (production models of) Ferrari, Bugatti, Lamborghini are focused on race track performance?
they have to remove tesla logo from batteries for rubbery.
I believe the chutes are set not to deploy above 15,000 feet. Also, many of the ejector seat have a seat-man separator motor so you don't land in the seat.
In NixOS, they are probably under some directory with a random name.

This is the OS where each binary runs with a different path and library path, with only the programs it needs (on the versions it needs) linked there.
> In fact bicycles are fastest off the line, since they produce max. torque at 0rpm (just keep weight on a pedal, release the brakes to go).

I doubt a bicycle would actually cross the starting line before a high end bike or car would surpass it. A 180lb rider would produce about 90lb of torque at most (assuming 6” crank) and that’s only for the instant that the crank is parallel with the ground.

A high end car would deliver significantly more than 90lb of torque instantaneously by dumping the clutch (or using launch control).
Laptop model: XPS 9370

CPU: 8th Gen i7

RAM: 16Gb

Screen: 13" 4k

Personal comments: 4k screens are a double-edged sword, wish linux support was better.
Slack and Dropbox Hypothetical Merger
I think Reddit does this...

The mobile site is absolute garbage.
This is amazing! Are there any actual plans and supply list or is this just the beginning?
Laptop model: MacBook Pro 2018

CPU: 2.3 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 (8259U)

RAM: 8GB

Screen: 13"

Personal comments: The hardware is great. Haven't had problems with the keyboard of this generation. Touch ID is awesome. The touch bar is annoying. Would have liked more non-USB-C port. macOS is in a downward spiral, so I am mostly using my NUC8i5BEH desktop machine with NixOS.
Postwoman – An online, open-source API request builder
For folks interested in the analysis of Dune (and Frank Herbert’s subsequent works), the Podside Picnic podcast (https://soundcloud.com/user-733327042) ran a “Dune History Month” in August which is worth checking out. The recent one on the Dune Encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dune_Encyclopedia) was fascinating.
Not sure I'd buy that - my old quartz from my childhood (analogue and digital) still work excellently, and keep great time, and only need a battery replacing every 10 years or so.

My Chinese automatic lost time after the first year and wasn't worth repairing. My vintage seiko 5 recently had a service/repair - which cost £120 - and yes it works pretty well now, but they replaced the whole automatic innards - just the face/dial/hands and body/strap remain. And it still loses a couple of minutes a week. Unless I take it of for a few days and it stops completely.

I love it though and it makes me very happy to wear it - and it looks and feels great. But I wear a Xiaomi mi band on my other wrist for accurate timekeeping (when I need to be sure to make the train or something).
Wouldn't the mail server log the connection attempt and the rejection reason?
English is woefully inadequate to capture cultural nuances of a lot of places in this blue-green spinny ball though

I grew up multi lingual before moving to the US and there are still several things that i have to say "well, there's no word for that in English but it's kind of xyz". There are so many ideas, thoughts and feelings that cannot be captured with the English language presently.

Of course every language has that issue across borders so I'm not convinced standardizing in english as a global language will bring enough benefit to be worth the cost
Man the fun for me is finding good parking where I’m headed. I feel blessed.
Even as a gamer, intel's strength is overrated.

I'm sorry, I'm just not going to buy a 2080ti and run it at 1080p with less-than-maxed out settings, and if I were that crazy, I wouldn't care much about the perceptually irrelevant difference between 110fps and 120 fps (and to be honest, you may have even less relevant differences), and if I found one or two cases where the difference was possibly meaningful, I wouldn't be likely to run with 0 background programs.

I mean, there are cases where it'll be barely noticable, but they're so vanishingly niche, you're not simply a gamer at that point, you're some really specialized breed.

A perhaps more relevant case is stuff like quicksync and AVX 512 - those kind of features really can make a night+day difference, in case you use them. Perhaps less critically, intel's memory latency is still better, so maybe for some L3-cache-size insensitive but latency sensitive workloads you'll find some stuff?
It would be nice if they cataloged the Forgot Password links so folks could see if they actually have an account at these services.

I've been on the Internet for almost 30 years, they accumulate.

Edit: Just tried hitting forgot password on the first 10 sites. Surprising how many directly tell you that account doesn't exist.
They are very, very close IMO.

I just bought my first desktop computer in a decade, in part for gaming, and bought all AMD.

CPU was a no-brainer: unless you really really care about top of the line single core performance AMD is much cheaper.

GPU was a bit trickier: again unless you really really care about top of the line GPUs the 5700(XT) are better value. RTX is an interesting sticking point.In the end since we're confident AMD is doing something here (because they are providing the hardware for the next console generation that is going to support RT) and we should know about it in about a year, and first rev tech isn't always a good buy I'm happy to delay getting on the RT train until the specs and support evens out a bit.

tl;dr; unless you want and can afford to overpay for the best of the best AMD is incredibly competitive in gaming
I was doubting this for a while but there are finally games now that will bottleneck a 2012 era CPU. I’m planning a Ryzen upgrade for this purpose.
It's built into the inbox view, so GMail is extracting the action from the message content and placing a button on the row element. Sorry if that wasn't clear from my initial post.
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Maybe we don't need so many "light" markup languages. Writing html directly is as easy as writing any markup language if you have a good html editor.
I have been taking notes with html-notepad (https://html-notepad.com/) for a long time and the writing experience is much more enjoyable than writing md, rst or emacs org mode (I only tried these three).
Taking notes with html doesn't mean you have to write verbose html tags or the html tags would clutter the edit area. The html-notepad is a WYSIWYG editor which means what you see is a rendered html page when you are editing. There are keyboard shortcuts for oft-used elements like header1~6, lists, code and so on, and you could edit the html source if you like. Although the html-notepad has some flaws and lacks some really useful function (like search and replace), it's definitly a very convenient tool for me.
It was mostly with single-core-heavy (i.e. older) games. Newer multi-core games did very well on the i5, but better still on the six core Ryzen. I mostly play older games so my experience is likely different from most gamers.

Edit: An example from memory, the very old game Crysis stuttered badly at 1440p with the i5, it was only playable at 1080p (both resolutions with all graphics settings on highest/ultra); this was with the GTX 1060. When I first built the Ryzen system I carried over my GTX 1060, and was able to play that game at 1440p60 smooth as butter. Turning off vsync I was getting close to 100fps, whereas with the i5 and vsync off I was lucky to spike above 70, with average fps somewhere around 30-35. Moving to the RX 580 actually dropped the fps cap slightly with vsync off, but still allowed me to play at 60fps locked for a smoother experience overall.

In general, this was the same experience with all of my older games (Skyrim, Far Cry 2, Mirror's Edge, Rust, etc). With newer multi-core games like Doom 2016 and Far Cry 4 I never had any CPU bottleneck on the i5, and the new system marked an increase in graphic quality without sacrificing smoothness and resolution.
I’m pretty confident I know a decent amount about homosexuality :)

At no point did I say that it was uncommon for homosexual children to have homophobic parents. That obviously happens all the time.

But I think you are trying to use overly precise ideas to analyse human sexuality. It’s complex and messy and the result of many different factors. You can’t completely isolate sexual attraction from identity or social background; indeed it seems blindingly obvious to me that upbringing would have an effect on an individual’s willingness to think about, accept or acknowledge any latent same-sex attraction they experience. It can be hard for an individual who is raised to reject same-sex sexual activity as perverted or morally wrong to even consider the possibility that it’s something they might experience themselves. People ignore or reject aspects of themselves all the time.

I can’t be certain, but my experience suggests that human sexuality is probably much more fluid than we generally expect as a result of long-standing social conventions. This is something that might change as same-sex relationships lose their taboo. And maybe I’m totally wrong; maybe homosexuality is just the result of a bunch of physiological changes. I find it hard to reconcile though.
I thought that, it could easily cover the performace difference. However, the AMD is so much cheaper it's still an epyc win for them even without a performance advantage.
>So keeping an old broken watch your grandfather gave you because you have sentiments attached to it is also religious ?

Well, it's worth is metaphysical, not practical. Doesn't have to be tied to an explicit religious mythology to be so. As a gesture it's part of the same process from where religion (and religious sentiment) emerged.

(I don't mean to knock it, by the way).
Buy a Rolex if you want to impress others, buy a Seiko if you want to impress yourself...

So true !!!
s/MB/GB/g I hope ;). 4MB may be enough to play DOOM though.
You can automatically (re)start tmux so your sessions survive losing a connection.
Architect's async/await middleware for AWS lambda
For the name it would be better to use an existing programming language and add "script" at the end, it won't be confusing. Maybe JavaScriptScript?
For a minute, I thought these were direct links to delete your account, meaning that going to these links would delete your account immediately, a bit like like Super Logout (DO NOT CLICK https://superlogout.com/ OPEN IN INCOGNITO TAB).
I was referring to conservatism in the sense of being reactionary (which is indeed as old as at least technology, one of my favorite books is Fathers and Sons). Many if not most democrats certainly fit the bill. I certainly agree with the need for solidarity!
Early VW Beetles had no fuel gauge either. They had a reserve fuel tank, and a lever to switch over to the reserve. Can't recall whether they had a dipstick or not.
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/940047/Volkswagen-1958-Bee...
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/940047/Volkswagen-1958-Bee...