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GitHub's generous free plans and accessible UI, especially in recent years, has removed a lot of the barriers that traditionally prevented many people from participating in open source projects. Consequently, this also resulted in a lot more noise on GitHub projects vs projects managed via mailing lists where bug reports are more concise and maintainers are more receptive (at least from my experience with LLVM).

I think we're still in a transitional period where nobody really knows how to properly run large scale open source projects with low/no barriers to entry. Even well-funded projects repos like Typescript, VSCode, React receive more issues than they can close. Stale bot is not perfect but some automation is definitely required for these popular repositories. I suspect some barrier to entry may also required for a healthy repository to filter out the noise e.g. mandatory repository that reproduces the bug.
The issue is not in passing through the junk - that's like passing through the asteroid belt. We don't (or at least used to not) even plan a specific path through the asteroid belt, as the chance of hitting anything on the way through is so low.

The problem is if you want to stay in an orbit alongside the junk.

The dynamics of orbital mechanics are interesting, to say the least, but it in no way maps to the surface of some sphere.

A somewhat useful analogy is to imagine two circular racetracks, that intersect with each other in two spots. Each racetrack is like an 'orbit', and racecars going around them are satellites.

Make the racetracks really big, and put a car on each track. Have the cars drive around non-stop forever. The chance of them hitting each other on any lap is extremely small. However, if you let the cars go for a long time, and one of them completes a lap a little bit faster than the other, the times that they both cross the intersection will slowly get closer and closer together. Eventually, they will crash. If you put more cars on the track, the chance of two of them colliding increases. If everyone time they crash they create lots of baby cars, well you get Kessler Syndrome.

This is only a problem for these racetracks because they touch. We protect against this in the orbital world by keeping satellites in different orbits, that don't cross. The problem is that the orbits can shift over time due to gravitaional inconsitencies, and solar flares causing the atmosphere to bleed off into space, and the moon, etc. With lots of long lived satellites in low earth orbit, the chance for a crash increases. But even if we do get lots of baby satellites the other orbits farther out will remain useable (like geostationary orbits), you just have to be a little careful when crossing the low earth orbits on the way out.
This is a CV (résumé) creator aimed at academic types with publication lists.

I wrote it to scratch my own itch, because it’s a bit of a pain keeping this stuff organized so that I can pop out an updated CV when I need one.

You can maintain a collection of CVs with different information, in different styles, for different purposes.

You can enter your publications one at a time, or upload a BibTeX file if you have one. You can export all your data, including your pubs translated into BibTeX, whenever you want. You can control what publications are listed on what CVs, and how.

You can share the PDF of your CV using a URL with a hash, that you can “revoke” if needed, or update while keeping the same URL.

It’s a bit complicated, because the job that it does is complicated. But I tried to guide the user with help tips where needed.

Right now it looks like crap on small screens, but it works.

Designed to load fast, with very small downloads. Works without JavaScript, but I use a little to smooth over the interactions.

It uses Django, Postgresql, and XeLaTeX, and a little htmx.

All criticisms or advice welcome!
Cars are much easier to replace than languages though. You can buy a new car and use it straight away.

To use a new language you must change your brain.
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This would be a horrible way to make a product which isn't a piece of test equipment. The power consumption and manufacturing cost is orders of magnitude higher than a specific purpose device.
For awhile now, the Mastodon account migration process has supported automatically updating your followers to point to your new account: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration
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"Mathematical foundations" are not always useful to practitioners – or even at all. Algebraic quantum field theory is a good example of the latter, to a large degree [0].

The fact that workers in the field with the presumed "applications" don't seem to care is pretty telling. My guess is that working at a level of generality where subject-specific insights are suppressed automatically limits the usefulness of the work.

[0]: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8890/1/critique_sep10.pdf
The network effects are on Ethereum, with virtually the entire DeFi space on it.

Moreover, Bitcoin doesn't have the necessary opcodes for secure/trustless bridges to sidechains.

Rootstock, for its part, is controlled by trusted third parties, so doesn't come close to providing the trustless-ness and permissionless-ness guarantees of Ethereum.

Unsurprisingly, Rootstock has insignificant adoption, with Ethereum having on the order of one thousand times more capital/users utilizing it.
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The article addresses this at the beginning: it’s not possible to plant enough trees.
From an external perspective being slim and healthy seems like to sensible things to be obsessed about.(Though your comment implies "too skinny" over "slim").

It seems better than "body positive" movements telling us that being overweight is "healthy" despite it being pretty common knowledge that it isn't. To me it's the equivalent of saying that smoking a few cigarettes a day is healthy.
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I'm fine with adding a little humor and levity in a technical book, but only if the following conditions are met:

1. Provides some pedagogic purpose (such as illustrating a point)

2. It's actually funny
> But these people at Facebook think they can go to a completely foreign market, setup shop, take over a huge chunk of the advertising industry, become an influential media platform overshadowing local media outlets, and they do that while employing barely any locals and avoiding taxes too boot.

If the locals don't want to use, advertise on, or consume media on Facebook then they wouldn't. If they do want to... then I guess that says it all doesn't it?

Sounds like you're pissed off at your fellow citizens for using Facebook rather than at Facebook for being available.

Reads like 'who do these people think they are coming along with their superior product and putting our inferior products out of business?'

Also if they don't want to employ people locally then maybe look at yourselves as to why? Facebook isn't inherently opposed to offices in other countries - there's a growing one in London for example.
> She glanced at Slack and pointed to the list of users.

While I also hate the team UX, at least to me it looks pretty similar to Slack in the standard view. On my left when I start up is a list of all users. If I click one I have an IM session with that user.

There are some other "views" in Teams (Teams view, Activities view, ...) were you in one of those?
It is. The article is a little odd.

"free as in beer" vs "free as in speech" is already such a perfectly clear way to distinguish between the two meanings of the word "free", that it boggles me that people still manage to be confused by it. That IS already the simple intuitive non-academic small-vocabulary no-riddles way to illuminate it.

"free as in beer" is not about "it's a way to trick you into eventually spending more so it's not really free"

It just means something you don't pay for, that's it.

Maybe another way to say it is "free as in money" vs "free as in permission". I hate how that washes the very last atom of color from it but I guess that's just what some people need.
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It’s hostile to the GPL licence which means anything licensed under GPL can’t be used in Microsoft’s proprietary products.

I would personally say Microsoft wasn’t necessarily driven by anti open-source hate necessarily, they were just very anti-competitor. Microsoft tried to compete with their biggest competitor? Colour me shocked.
It turns out that brute-force works, and the scaling curve is still not bending.

I doubt we'll ever see a GPT-4, because there are known improvements they could make besides just upsizing it further, but that's besides the point. If that curve doesn't bend soon then a 10x larger network would be human-level in many ways.

(Well, that is to say. It's actually bending. Upwards.)
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Underrated comment. Yeah, if you want C-like performance, you have to do some low-level considerations, that is unavoidable at some point. So the "speed of C, convenience of Python" is misleading.

However, for many, many small tasks, today's compilers are smart enough that you can express your idea in a high-level language and the generated code will be maximally efficient. The real killer feature of Julia is that, where ever you can gain maximal performance with high-level syntax, you can just choose to do that. A more correct but less sexy slogan for Julia is that it has the best performance/expressiveness tradeoff you have ever seen.
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while i do agree there ought to be a better way of sharing profits from the productivity rise that he and his company enabled, that is far and removed from calls to guillotine him that one often comes across on the not-so-far-left
You could make this same slippery-slope argument for any lawful restriction, but it seems mainly popular for speech and gun rights.

As with many other arguments it is far less persuasive to those who were not already persuaded.
The advice to always batch is at odds with the primary advice of systems like the Toyota Production System (TPS) and Lean, which is to strive for one-piece flow in most places in the system under study.

A continuous integration system doesn’t batch jobs; it starts working on a job the moment it arrives. Would it be better if CI jobs were arranged into batches that were processed, say, twice a day?

I would not want the front desk of a hotel to batch the processing of my request for a room with all the others received in the last hour so that the front desk person can maximize their sense of efficiency.

In seeking to maximize the efficiency of each business operation at the local level, do we wind up harming performance of the company as a whole?

What is the goal?
This is in fact correct, orbital velocity is sqrt(G*M/r) for circular orbits.
>Can you point me out to left leaning content that gets demonetized constantly so I could compare with the right leaning one. I've not seen this happen in people I've subscribed and would like to see if this claim has any merit.

Is there a public notification of what videos are monetized? I'm unaware of one, and my quick check shows the poster gets one and some proprietary services that can supposedly check.

Without a public way to check, you would he unable to distinguish actual bias from which side complains more.
Yeah, yesterday I played with MuseScore 3.6 a little bit ­— a lot of fun![0]

As for me, MuseScore now took 2nd place (just after Blender, which keep 1st place) on my Top FLOSS software projects lists.

P.S. The only issue, as for me, that MuseScore 4[1] (WIP) UI would be switched to QML (JavaScript). I tried its latest nightly builds — it looks like common Electron apps & for me its UI/UX looks horrible.

Guess, I would stuck to MuseScore 3.x forever.

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1350904572450123778 [video]

[1] https://musescore.org/en/MuseScore4
“Due to the huge swath of IPs we were unable to make a more targeted block without risking more severe disruption”
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Your father's satellite is very high (1400km, 1000km above the ISS) at the edge of what is classified as low earth orbit. It will be up there for a long while but the chance of it ever hitting anything is infinitesimal.
I never understood why Github needs to 'lock' the stale issues. Isn't it possible to just 'mark' stale issues as being just that. What's the point of 'locking'?
I had no idea that “Ada” and “Haskell” were intended to be people names. Those are not super common names. And I had totally forgotten about Miranda, which I agree has the same issue.
Right, but my point in the original comment is that with a 20 hour battery life you wouldn't have the "on the sofa and need to charge" problem anymore.
> for chopping it really helps to have a sharp knife. A dull knife... is also more likely to cause an accident.

This is true, but sharp knives also require good handling skills. If someone has been using dull knives their whole life they will almost certainly cut themselves if given a sharp knife, unless they are also re-trained on how to use them.

Watch an episode of "Worst cooks in America" and count how many hands Ann has drawn on with a red Sharpie.
I could be wrong, but it seems like someone who is happy to frequently switch between macOS, Linux & Windows is probably not actually taking advantage of all the features of any of them, and hence is not actually terribly productive (assuming arguendo that those features actually aid productivity).

For my part, I use emacs on Linux because I believe the power of computers is in crafting a personalised productivity enhancer. Free software which can be customised down to a very low level is part of that.
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That's the right of free association: you don't have to associate with Nazis if you don't want to.
Hyperledger is the enterprise go to.

also, most devs avoid blockchain like the covid, so likely to get cheeky answers on HN, where blockchain is generally frowned upon
There's a huge difference between closing and locking issues.

If you close an issue, people can still leave follow-up comments, and the issue can be re-opened if warranted. Some of the best issues on GitHub are closed issues where people have come in months or years after the fact and left useful additional information.

Locking an issue leads to tons of duplication, annoying UX, and an overall hostile experience. In the 10,000+ issues I've managed on my own repos over the years, I've locked a grand total of ONE issues and that was just due to some borderline harassment (though unintended) that was going on long after useful discourse was over.
> being stored as a normal julia file.

Oh, man, this is indeed a major feature. My main point of friction with jupyter notebooks is the stupid json ipynb format. Why can't it be just a regular language file with comments?
Clearly you misunderstood my comment, I was making the case that if Cash bail is to exist it should be based on income,

The person i was replying to stated that the court did not take the danger seriously because they only applied and $1,000 bail, my point is to a Poor person that $1,000 may as well be $1,000,000. Where as to a billionaire than $1,000 is literally nothing

That is with out getting into the fact that if the person is a danger they should be denied bail outright, as slapping down some money to the state does not eliminate danger.

Bail as it was conceived was suppose to ensure the person showed up in court for face their crimes and a jury of their peers, it was not suppose to be about profit, or public safety, or punishment however cash bail system today is used for all 3 of those things and very little for its intended purpose
He could have fashioned any old popsicle into a shiv!
https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/01/12/blind-man-sees-again-...

Imsraeli startup gives blind man sight with "artificial" corneas.
In other news a sharp increase in Palestinian children losing their eyes
Well that's true, or maybe he was down-prioritized for donor organs due to his age. I've got a friend who isn't allowed to drive a car because of bad corneas. He also got repeatedly rejected when trying to apply for a donor organ, because he is still far from blind, so his inability to drive is classified as a comparatively mild inconvenience. I'd just have thought that someone who actually is effectively blind would be able to get one. I'm sure my friend will be thrilled to hear about this development, he's been waiting for something like this for years, nay decades! When production ramps up he might finally be able to get his full eyesight back!
By default the stale bot does not lock issues. And you can configure it to mark stale, then either close or not close the issue.
However, the US has about entirely lost their status as a model. As-is, following US legislation would require some amount of apologetic discourse anywhere outside of North America. (That the US have left the international community for the most, or, at least, have proposed to do so – especially, when it comes to treaties and jurisdiction – doesn't especially help either.)
This term if built out of actual words that have actual meaning. Why call it danger-to-community if he's is not a danger to community?

If you want arbitrary label you want to assign arbitrarily why not call it ooglaboogla instead? At least you wouldn't be lying while using it.
I think a bit that closes (but not lock) issues that keetna certain criteria (maintainer marks is as "needs reporter feedback", and are support issues makes more sense. Big reports shouldn't be discouraged not stale-locked.
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Counterintuitively, “M” means one thousand, not one million (which is represented by “MM”).

However, I’d argue this is a thing where it’s confusing to the majority of people and it’s the language that needs to change, just like flammable/inflammable (both of which, also counterintuitively, mean “will easily catch fire”).

Edit: also yeah I agree with folks here – this appears to be an attempt to satirize Zuckerberg in some way I don’t understand
I'm not advocating they associate with conservatives if they don't want to, I'm replying to the comment which talked about how the Fediverse is "uncensored" when, in practice, it's even more tightly moderated than Twitter.
What about a moonlap? 3.5 hour drive in a Cybertruck?
Remember that, assuming circular orbits (which is fine for this discussion, I think), you have to fit satellites on great circle paths next to each other. For a single great circle you can fit a significant number of satellites in a chain, but turns out you don't want too many like that as all your satellites cover the same part of the earth.

All great circles on a sphere will intersect in two places, which assures a collision if you have satellites in them both (without active avoidance). So you have to separate the great circles on to different sized spheres, or add a little eccentricity to make sure the rings don't touch.

There is still a lot of space, but comparing to the size of the surface of the earth is not very informative when dealing with orbital dynamics.
I've always wondered the same. They're only an organism in the same sense that a reef is an organism.
In the US, often parents who are lazy or overworked ignore it because of it interfering with their lives. Or they could be the next child where the parent doesn't care as much about and ignores things that need to be addressed early.
Anyone experience on HN with Boxcryptor? Would like to hear why you chose it? How easy it is to deploy, maintain & upgrade? And how the user acceptances/usability is?
Only if the person puts up the bail directly

If you use a Bail Bonds Company you only put up normally 10%, to the bail company who keeps that as a service fee.

So if you had a $1,000 Bail, you can pay $1,000 to courts and be refunded when you show up, or $100 to a bail bonds company who will keep the $100.

If you are a poor person most of the time you will end up paying the $100 and never see that money again
So fascinating. I’d love to understand why it’s working so well. I guess no one knows.

Wouldn’t gpt4 just be more data and more parameters?
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Don’t you know, life needs oxygen, anything else isn’t life.

(A jab at searches for extraterrestrial life that maintain oxygen as a key criteria)
I’ve used juli a few times over the years.

For some numerical things it’s nice with easy interfaces to modern algorithms. I solved a differential equation recently and it just worked. And Julia feels like a much more proper programming language than matlab.

At the lower level (which I haven’t looked at in a while so may have changed) I found it a bit confusing and messy. The subtyping and method selection are tricky to get right and they are fundamental to important parts of the language like it’s numeric tower. But libraries seem to just work.

Macros were horrific and the ast is inscrutable and liable to change from one version to the next. Quasiquoting was also tricky. So I wouldn’t recommend trying to do anything weird with them. But maybe they are good now.

Pluto notebooks seem a great concept. I tried them recently and mostly they worked (sometimes they didn’t get dependencies right but it’s still beta). I felt like I was fighting a bit with plots.jl. I don’t know if there are things that weren’t obvious to me that I was missing or if it can just be a bit annoying. I haven’t tried gadfly but I would like to at some point. I’ve heard good things about ggplot2 which it is inspired by.

I felt like documentation was a bit lacking in good straightforward tutorials and examples. As well as documentation in general. But I don’t want to put too much emphasis on that.
It is hard to iterate and make changes when your codebase relies on human/machine assisted proofs. Great for airplanes and cars when regulatory approval means iteration is slow. Not so great for consumer software.
Or, stay on the beaten path for too long and get "too big" and it turns into a dumpster fire.
Like how Israel is leading the world in vaccinations per capita! As long as the you exclude the Palestinian population that is...
The point of the vaccine is to keep the health system from being overloaded. Over 75s are already being triaged out of intensive care in many countries, so it matters little on a society-wide scale whether they get the vaccine or not. In fact, somewhere in the news today I read an official claiming that it is 60-75 year old people who are the most important vaccination target to begin lifting lockdowns.
I see, thanks for taking the time to answer me =D
I would argue that if those really are your major gripes about Julia, you either have very bad priorities, or don't know enough about Julia to contribute to this conversation.
You can say whatever you want on your own instance. That does not mean anyone else is forced to listen to you.

IMHO this is one of the best parts of the fediverse! Moderation is decentralized, so decisions about what is acceptable can be made at much lower levels. This allows for more flexibility and nuance then trying to globally apply a one-size-fits-all set of standards.