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> Why does the file size matter? Are the devices you use so short on storage that an extra 100 mb is an issue?

No, but just about any aspect of computing benefits from smaller file sizes, or smaller data size in general, starting with CPU caches, RAM caching of files, file transfers, including syncing things over the network, backing things up. The more free space a SSD has, the smarter it can be about wear leveling (I think, though I have no idea how much this matters in practice).

I mean sure, if the data just sits there, and you don't do anything else with the machine but run a password so manager, it really doesn't matter, but we tend to run dozens programs actively with even more running in the background, all of this adds up quick even on one machine. And then there are billions of people using even more devices.

In this case, I like using KeePassXC portable, so if the size is the result of having less outside dependencies, I'm fine with it, don't get me wrong. But generally, this attitude of just throwing hardware at software is a problem, which by now it has reached gigantic proportions IMO, and you made the argument generally.

Imagine some kind of character encoding that is exactly Unicode, but every character gets repeated 10 times... not for any useful reason, just so people can show they can afford beefy hardware and waste it. Would you use it?

We cannot even begin to imagine what our current hardware would be capable of, if we only allowed ourselves the time to use it well. Consider that this runs on hardware from 1981: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65371

The same achieved with less is always better, I'll just claim that. The whole universe in all it's infinite wealth cannot change that, and we live on a planet that's about to get ruined real hard because of our consumption of materials and energy. Storage may very well become so big and cheap as to be practically infinite, but CPU will always cost energy.

For one-off things with limited use, knock yourself out, of course, but if you package something for distribution, it may stay around "forever" and get handled countless times, by servers and end-users, so if it can be made smaller without making it worse and without extreme hassle, make it smaller.
Hey, thanks for your comment! I agree that tooling comes last, that's sort of what I was trying to get across.

Those are some good points you brought up. I think they'll be useful next time I need to make a diagram (or even any written communication).
> This is an attempt to enforce extralegal policy limiting immigration to the US via reducing the number of people on student visas.

I suspect this a "heads I win/tails you lose" situation. If schools don't reopen to in-person classes, thousands of foreign kids get kicked out. If schools do open, then hey, the COVID thing can't be that bad since things are back to normal
This is the PPA.
https://launchpad.net/%7Ewebupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java

For years it has been recommended as the mechanism for installing Java on Ubuntu installs.
Better even: design it to be self-hostable from scratch. Edit: by making it a self-contained executable, a .deb or even a set of ansible scripts.

I understand that some complex interconnected ball-of-spaghetti of microservices makes little sense to open-source, b/c no-one can run it.

But that is essentially saying: we never wanted people to run it themselves, and now we are at a point that no-one can run it, so why bother?
i cranked the zoom to 160% and the background was no longer visible. didn't help the article much, alas.
I mean probably the safety of the staff?
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Same for me. ROS in particular only supports Ubuntu officially; although I know people can run it on Arch, it’s much more hacky and you have to build every package from source.
Thank you, a great point! We have witnessed so many automation/RPA initiatives put on hold/buried because of the complexity or cost of process discovery, that's why a lot of R&D efforts are focused on this specific stage of automation lifecycle
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I wish the about page had some information about the people who built this because I feel trust is increasingly important in my rubric for choosing what services I use.
Indeed. I am however curious to see if there will be a Nix made easy type distro, similar to Ubuntu's relation to Debian.
why is it that all search engines still look like Google in the 90's. Can't the UI become fresher?

also I think SEO really ruined the search experience. do you have plans to use other ranking factors? Maybe social upvoting or so to improve ranking of actual good content as opposed to crappy listicles which is 50% of search results right now?
YouTube ads allow brand usurpation
A Tesla YouTuber Wants a Gas Car and Now YouTube Keeps Taking Down His Video
Even the youtube shortcuts don't work (J/L for long seek and left/right for short seek)
These are a few of the reasons I've continued to use the "Open With" extension with mpv. ([right-click]->Open With->mpv) This provides full playback control, lets me toggle stay-on-top, etc. Firefox's PiP is a nice thought but just isn't right for me as currently implemented.
I don't think they're being dishonest. This is indeed reverting back to what was before. The thing is, students who normally study onsite are still studying remotely due to the pandemic. The original law presumably was targeted at permanently remote classes. One can of course argue whether the exception is still reasonable, xamuel made a fair case that it's not. But the opposite case really does not seem dishonest.
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I interpreted the timeline as focusing on perceived threats that didn't pan out. I would consider the threat of extinction by nuclear war to be a real threat that may yet pan out. So to me, it seems reasonable that it was omitted - lumping the 'danger' of vaccines with the dangers of nuclear war seems to understate the threat of the latter.
I appreciate how in image searches, you appear to be filtering dupes.
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It's a bit weird that searching for "twitter" redirects me straight to https://twitter.com/ - I understand the intent there but I'd rather get search results - I know how to navigate using my browser URL bar.
I use this in the wild and like anything it has its pros and cons.

The best usage is automating repetitive tasks in a call center environment. Like you click a "Start my day" button and it opens up and logs you into every application that you use. Then a customer calls in and you put their information in one place and that opens the customer's record in all of those applications. Time is money in call centers and you can save a lot of time with simple stuff like this.

More questionable usage is as a psuedo-api background process. The users fill out a form and that information is sent over to a queue. The robot pulls it out of the queue and then enters it into the slow/confusing legacy backend system. This is good because it's cheaper/faster than building out an API to a legacy backend that is difficult and expensive to change.

The problem is that now you have a brittle and asynchronous communication layer over a legacy backend that is difficult and expensive to change. You compound the problem you have in exchange for quick benefits.
How does that interact with the NMI on the ZX Spectrum? I'm not a ZX programmer, but I've read that ZX has a NMI that fires and can't be reprogrammed.
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From the zkSync website:

"WARNING: zkSync v1.0 is in alpha. Blockchains and zero-knowledge proofs are still experimental technologies with rapidly evolving attack vectors. zkSync relies on cutting-edge cryptography that has never been used in production before. While Matter Labs is rigorously following scientific and engineering best practices with regard to security, we can not provide 100% fault-free guarantee. Use zkSync at your own risk and do not put more money into it than you can afford to lose."

That doesn't sound like 'scalable already', it sounds more like be prepared to lose your money.

Further, on the ZK-Rollups website, we have:

"The initial set up of ZK-Rollups promotes a centralized scheme
The security scheme assumes a level of unverifiable trust

The initial setup of ZK-Rollups is assumed to be a trusted state, when this trust cannot be proven. A small group of developers will be subject matter experts on the initial trusted state. This undermines decentralization and opens the risk of social engineering hacking attacks by convincing a developer to manipulate code or provide vulnerability information."

This is not reliable scalable technology. It's centralised so it takes all the supposed advantages of blockchains away, at which point you are better off just using a single trusted database, instead of thousands of machines duplicating the same work.
Given that lambda won't accept more than one expression even on its own dedicated line, I think the discussion is moot.

I could imagine a working syntax as indentation already works properly between parens and brackets.
My preferred way of installing and managing software on Ubuntu is compiling the source to /opt and then installing it to the system with the Debian/Ubuntu Update Alternatives system:

- https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives

- http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/update-alter...

It allows you to install multiple different versions side-by-side and toggle which of them is called by the canonical system command in /bin, /usr/bin or wherever.

You install them in /opt or somewhere else where collisions won't occur, then use the update-alternatives command to link them into /bin, /usr/bin or other system directories.

It takes a little more work up front, but is worth it. It makes both upgrades and rollbacks completely painless, and you get to decide which version you use.

The upfront work part is in scripting the various binaries and manpage files that need to be linked together, atomically, into system directories. Here's an old (out-of-date) example script for installing Haskell Platform after building it in /opt/ that demonstrates this. All subcommands must be slaved to the main command, and update-alternatives enables this.

https://pastebin.com/74JAxdTX
Reasonable critics aren't expecting reviewers to replicate the results, but the dog park paper illustrates that reviewers can't even recognized clearly bogus data. I mean, have you even read the methods the paper said they employed?
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Me and my girlfriend are lucky(?) enough to live in Saitama so we have an extra room that we’ve converted into an office. Most of my colleagues/friends don’t have this space and had to slap their computers on top of their Kotatsu’s before summer rolled around, now because this doesn’t look to be ending anytime soon they’re all buying desks or “floor office chairs”
I'm actually a great fan of flutter and imo it is the best cross-platform solution out there. Probably except for web: though it produces very good result performance-wise, the end result is never really "web" and doesn't act like traditional web. As for desktop applications(whether it be windows, linux or mac), it seems like it's too mobile-oriented. I see great potential for simple solutions like self-service operations where you need a basic UI and it would be great if it could easily target platforms like raspberry pi (arm processors running Linux). But at the moment, while possible, it is a very painful thing to tackle and I wouldn't rely on something like that for an end product. I would assume that this is why google is working on fuchsia but way too few devices are supported. And neither of them is cheap(which is what could be a game changer, going back to the raspberry pi).
I actually just finished moving from 1Password to Enpass. KeePassXC was in the mix and is nice but what killed it for me was the lack of credit card / template support. Did not like the 1Password move from offline storage to online sync. You can buy a license but it is about $70 or so per platform. Enpass desktop is free and I can sync to my Synology using WebDav. That all said, I really hope KeePassXC vastly improves because I would love love love to use as much OSS as I can.
Any chance you can give the link? Can't really find anything :(
We'll just have to disagree about this. I think intuition is incredibly important both in mathematics and in programming.
The point is the most talented ones left and you are seeing the dregs that got rush promoted to replace them.

And he was talking about companies going through hard times, good companies should be able to keep their best employees.
And stack too IIRC.
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>The reason for why the backend for the snap store hasn't been opensourced has been explained multiple times. Namely that it would be expensive to open source it with little benefit in return.

Perhaps a business reason left unsaid is that an open source snap store would undermine Canonical's paid "enterprise edition" snap store. Why would an organization pay $30000 (https://ubuntu.com/internet-of-things) for a private app store if they could easily set up their own snap store?
> Try adopting a perspective of curiosity: "How does this new tech work? What new benefits might it provide?" Or at least one of professional duty. All knowledge workers have to keep up with the latest developments in their field; lawyers have to study up on the new case law, doctors have to read medical journals.

I think part of the problem is that some fraction of "new tech" is substantially just a reinvention of the wheel and/or oscillating fads, but it's all presented as "new therefore obviously superior" to what came before.

Others have probably said it better, but tech needs more study of history.
Looks like a moderator took the weird details out of the title above. Submitted title was "Show HN: A weirdly detailed graphical analysis of women's tops sold by Goodwill".

We took Show HN out too, because while this looks like an excellent submission, it's not a product or project that people can try out - see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
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Good points. I still think that, overall, money talks, and the vast majority of solar installations are not managed nearly as incompetently as this one was (i.e. not forgetting to take into account sand in a desert). So the fact that close to 100% if not 100% of new solar installations are PV over solar thermal really does mean that once you take all these factors into account, PV is still more cost-effective.

The storage issue is interesting, but doesn't matter so much to most plants since they tie into a larger balanced grid, and battery storage is coming down in cost at the same exponential rate as PV. These same advantages are not accruing to solar thermal. So I do think we are seeing the death knell for solar thermal, even when energy storage is desired alongside peak production.
Well. I showed them the future tool and if they liked it, they could subscribe. If you call this a lie, then whole Tesla is a lie https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck

+ I haven't collected any money from people.

What would you say on Kickstarters? When they are just in "prototype" phase and they even not sure if they can deliver? And they are even collecting money.
One thing I would say about SUSE - they are never mediocre. (nor what I would usually consider a behemoth)

The engineering team inside SUSE are exceptional - they do amazing things, and build really interesting features. The product planning / joined up thinking / visionary direction is where they fall down. As a sibling pointed out they have worked on some really interesting stuff, but (when I was there in any case) failed to pull it together into something that could have been outstanding.
It's a valid concern but a weird to criticize it on a website that exists specifically as a marketing arm of a business dedicated to that purpose.
Thanks for the input. Congrats on your site by the way.
Why would they switch to Clear Linux? They already have a Debian edition for those who don't want an Ubuntu base.

I personally don't see the issue with using Ubuntu as a base, _if_ you remove all of the offensive bits. iirc one of the Pop!_OS dev's was asked if they were going to rebase on Debian. The response was something akin to "We already change everything on the end user facing side, so there's not really a need."
Taking a decision to not change anything when everything has changed is not a passive act.
This seems very unlikely. Spending hours a day mixing with the hoi polloi on Reddit just isn't Maxwell's style.

https://twitter.com/hasharin/status/1280887074527367168
The family that started the Patagonia brand donated 1600 mi^2 of land to Chile to form a national park. That's way bigger than a boat(and probably cheaper to maintain too)!
All that, and it takes Ubuntu's default calculator program 4 full wall clock seconds to open on my laptop. Nothing grows in this desert.
They do include some some fears they describe as justified, though, such as print destabilizing the institutional power of the Vatican, and automation and mechanization putting people out of work.
I've heard claims that using the clipboard to transfer passwords is not very secure because a lot of different pieces of software may be able to read the clipboard.

If so, then a browser plugin would seem to provide better security. So this might be a little too KISS.

Does anyone have comments on how much of a concern it really is to have passwords travel by the clipboard?
I would probably use Switcheroo Redirector extension if I needed a quick fix, but I'll keep you posted with better solutions.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/switcheroo-redirec...
The article lost me at "According to LinkedIn" :) I think this perfectly captures how Blockchain is something you put on your LinkedIn profile purely for signaling to recruiters and non-technical PR and marketing people that use LinkedIn, which is full of spam and pyramid schemes.
Looks like that's covered here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23771401
I immediately thought of Linux Mint Debian Edition when I saw this. They describe it as something they are developing just in case, you know, "Ubuntu was ever to disappear." Well, excepting for some kind of Microsoft acquisition of Canonical ("we will be shifting our focus to developing Ubuntu for WSL"), I don't think Ubuntu will disappear, but it certainly might become so unfriendly to downstream distros that they have to move off of it.
I'm unclear why ubuntu needs the chromium package in apt. Seems like they should just stop publishing apt packages for chromium, only publish in snap, and steer users into using snap for installs and not apt. Seems less confusing and wins or loses on its merit.
> They are also thinking heavily about the money they might be losing.

This is also a solid reason why they have standing to sue in the first place, so it's actually a good thing.
> The hard part of learning OpenGL for me has been the sheer amount of boilerplate needed to get the most basic image on the screen.

You think that now, but wait until you get to Vulkan.
That sounds positively radical. Like magit taken to its conclusion.
The ability to create shared folders of credentials either for corporate or family situations while maintaining separate accounts is a big one. The password to my account and my wife's to hers are in our shared folder so if I plotz without warning she can get into my credential store and get into things like the power company website, insurance website, etc without having to have all of the credentials (along with crap she'll never care about like SSH keys and passwords for my EC2 instances) she doesn't care about taking up space on her account.
> However, from an external perspective having worked with bzr and launchpad, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a bunch of aspects there that would make opensourcing a nightmare.

If Canonical, as a Linux company, is not willing to spend the effort to open source their software, then Snap can continue to be rejected by Linux distributions. Canonical's most obvious reason for keeping the Snap server closed source is to lock its users into a proprietary and centralized system that it has full control over. This strategy is no different from Apple disallowing installations outside of the App Store on iOS, and Google disallowing alternative app stores in Google Play.
I read the Broken Earth trilogy a few years ago-- didn't remember it had won the Hugo award for all 3 books, and don't really understand why it would have won, unless that was a particularly weak couple of year?

It is a moderately decent fantasy series, but the writing is kind of clunky.

Looking at the 2017 Hugo, I'd say Cixian Liu's "Death's End" was a much better novel than "The Obelisk Gate", and would have given it to that book.

For the 2016 Hugo I've read 3 of the finalist("Fifth Season", "Ancillary Mercy", "Seveneves"), but I don't think
any of them were all that great... guess just a weak year.
Geoengineering refers to any attempt to engineer the planet. It isn't just aerosol injection, but would also include solar shades, dumping iron in the ocean, modifications to forest cover, creation or destruction of biomes (e.g., turning the Sahara back into something other than a desert), and in the future, conceivably things like bioengineering species to obtain desired goals (e.g., consider a plant we could farm that somehow sequestered CO2 in a form we could more easily bury). It's the terrestrial equivalent of the term "terraforming".
Amazon sellers in the U.S. will have to list their names and addresses
It's not a tiny conspiracy though. It seems like the data is being manipulated for every precinct, in subtly different ways in different regions. So the manipulation is being done by whoever is in charge of reporting for each city or region, or at least they're aware of it (since the final numbers wouldn't match their tallies).
Biochar had a lot of attention several years back. It still seems like it would be worth pursuing because it sequesters carbon and helps to build up healthy soil.
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No there's not, and your argument of data updating page automatically is not applicable if you are using react for example you can pass the right data to the right component, and this is the point of Graphql, if you have your data at the root component, you are not getting the point.
But you don't want it to be limited to plain video players - videoconferencing apps, games, and various real-time data displays etc are good fits to pip too. You are able to pipify any window without the app having to explicitly support it.
I want a "fullscreen to second screen" option for it (also without allways on top than)
PiP is so functional and I've been using it for sometime now.
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sounds like biomass green hand wave all over again
I completely agree that the borders should be open and bringing bright people from the all over the world to the US is fantastic. I am also opposed to the recent ruling. I am thankful that you are here. However, I do think the term "generation" is unnecessarily hyperbolic. We are talking about a year (or two), not a generation.
While I was posting this to the groups, I spoke to people and I told them the facts about that, if they asked. Nobody was pissed off, everybody was happy, that somebody was solving their pain.
The Go snap looks up to date to me?

https://snapcraft.io/go