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Agree on the infinite scrolling being generally bad, especially on comments. Same goes for the obnoxious "more" tiny links that obscure half of the content for no reason
Can you tell me how to earn karma points on Hacker news please reply me help.
I always made sure I had monit to keep services alive and a init.d scripts that boot all necessary services when the box starts up. Avoid single point of failures as much as possible. Minimize unbounded queries and always set a reasonable request timeout. Have away to collect stats (statds is nice)

The reality is yeah you probably are not gonna have many restful nights or peaceful dinners... 10 years later for me and I still avoid activities that don’t allow me to quickly access a computer. I still always have multiple mifis in my backpack to ensure if one cell network is not good maybe the other one is good enough for me to fix a server... you have to kind of enjoy it
Don't you find wool not stretching is a real problem? I struggle to get well-fitting wool socks that I can also get around my ankle, as they have no stretch.

Did you know people used to use sock suspenders to keep their saggy wool socks up before we started to use synthetic fibres for socks?
There are so many species that could be saved with far less high-tech means. Allowing them to be kept as pets could be a massive boost. You only need to look at american big cats to see the success. A few regulations to promote genetic health and you'll take a load of animals of the critically endangered list.
Global warming gals?
Linux probably won’t last forever, but I will wager a lot of money that a Google OS won’t be its replacement.

Also, Pop!_OS, despite the clumsy name, is the best OS I’ve used. I was Windows only for 20 years, Mac for 5, and Pop only recently, so I’m probably still in the honeymoon phase. But if you like keyboard-friendly desktops that are still easy for non power users, Pop is really quite good.
To add to this, in the US, registering is also necessary to sue for infringement (since the 2019 Fourth Estate ruling in SCOTUS) and it determines if the statutory damages apply or not - registration must come before infringement. It's not at all required to file a takedown notice, though.
What Is MVP and Its Benefits for Product Development
Yes, the original simulation hypothesis was phrased in terms of a trilemma, one of which seems like it must be true (plus the uncertain base assumption that a simulation of sentience is sentient):

- The fraction of posthuman civilizations capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations is very close to zero

- The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running simulations of their evolutionary history, or variations thereof, is very close to zero

- The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one.

For a certain kind of person who is also the most likely to engage with the hypothesis 3) is the most exciting, so it got the most attention. I think 1) and 2) are more probable and at least as worthy of deep consideration.
I've been using windows, Macos and KDE extensively.

I by far prefer KDE.

I think things work pretty much as well on Linux/KDE as they do on Mac/win. The apple mantra "it just works" is just not true.

With Linux/KDE I get extensibility and can make the platform streamlined to my use cases. That said, it's not perfect, but the amount of wtf/day is less on Linux for me.

One simple example is the file dialog that is a disaster in gnome and Macos. Windows so so, KDE it's good.

The goal to simplify things for end users that runs deep on Macos and gnome I think makes things more unusable than simple and clear.

The quick navigation between windows is another example where I really don't understand how people can work efficiently on Mac. On Linux I can easily jump between windows, have virtual desktops with organised applications.
On vanilla Mac you have cumbersome keyboard navigation and have to switch to one app before you can switch to the right window of that app.

I'll stop ranting now.
It seems to me you are making it needlessly complicated (LDAP...). There are many tools for authenticated access to server with minimal cost in terms of administration. TLS+Letsencrypt+Basic HTTP auth, SSH, OpenVPN, Wireguard, etc.
> the other 2 are iOS kernel for touchbar and controller

On Intel yes, as it's managed by the T2 chip which runs bridgeOS (which IIRC is based on watchOS rather than iOS, but it's XNU all the way down regardless). On M1 chips the controller functions have been integrated into the M1 chip, and I was under the impression that the touchbar was too; i.e. it's now controlled directly by macOS.
Software Engineer's Simple Sabotage Field Manual
It isn't voluntary if the date and time is chosen for you. California allows the employer to choose the last day of work. Not the effective date of resignation.

"An involuntary leaving of work occurs when the employer is the moving party in causing the unemployment of an employee at a time when the employee is able and willing to continue working."[1]

Gebru said she would respond after she was back from vacation.[2] So she was willing to continue working that long at least.

[1] http://carules.elaws.us/code/t.22_d.1_subd.1_d.1_pt1_ch.5_ar...

[2] https://twitter.com/timnitgebru/status/1334341991795142667
Stop this digital ownership madness. NFTs are bullshit and the stupid it burns
Or a "Patriot Act"-Mode?

Edit: It seems downvoters know something about the patriot act that I don't, because last time I checked it still forced US companies to comply with requests from US secret services. If you know more please explain rather than downvote.
I get where you're coming from, but modern society is clearly pushing us away from our own nature in this instance, not towards it.

To establish this, we just need to ask the question of what would happen if the explicit state punishments for murder, rape, etc were removed. The rates would increase significantly, implying that the existence of these measures is attenuating behaviour that's otherwise rather natural.

If chimps received an electric shock each time they tried to murder another chimp, would they murder less often? Yes, because that shock is attenuating their true nature.

Admittedly, "human nature" is a rather fuzzy concept and isn't a scientifically precise term.
In the US, even reputable shops such as Vanguard lend shares out for short sellers. It’s one way to keep the fee low for consumers.
I never heard of anyone losing their shares due to short sellers.
As stated by siblings, there's a specific reason it's called that. But they used to all have open comments sections. They didn't start shutting down replies for articles because of civil disagreements. Generally they're shuttered based on the expectation, in turn based on experience, that people will be absolutely fucking horrible in the comments. That's not always the case (comments may just be pointless), but most of the time it is -- eg, what's the point of allowing comments on, say, a Nick Cohen piece when a large % of those will just be vicious personal attacks on the writer? Shuttering is a blunt instrument, but why go through the hassle?
Oooo, yeah that's an interesting one. Especially with clojure's macros, surely there's some cool possibilities
Well said.

I’ve used ADs as a “band-aid”: something for three months or so at a time when necessary, to stop me a) killing myself [though thankfully it’s been a long long time since I had those intrusive thoughts] and b) giving me just enough “normality” to go and make whatever changes I can that pushed me in the direction of an episode or made an extant one worse, and lastly c) give me enough motivation that I can work properly with my psychologist/psychotherapist.

I’ve had very good “reasons” for my crippling depression, but usually I can’t see the forest for the trees to work out what it is while deep inside the episode.

Luckily for me, citalopram works with basically no side effects when taken for a couple of months. I’m glad that’s the case, but I’ve seen so many of my friends get no relief from ADs at all, along with so many (sometimes life altering!) side effects, that it makes me sad at times.

Lastly, buprenorphine is remarkable for me in terms of its anti depressive effect. Once monthly Buvidal injection not only solves my past issues with drug abuse, but neatly solves my depression. Fascinating stuff.
I think he's talking about Bitwarden beeing names as an alternative to Dropbox Passwords.
> I'm still blown away of how good an operating system can be that is being developed mostly by volunteers without any central authority.

Linux is mostly developed by paid developers these days.

> https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/28/who-contributes-to-the-...
I think it's questionable if canonical has a clear "focus". They certainly do work on their server side (after years of focusing, and doing great work, on the desktop) - and like (evry?) Linux vendor they sell support and access to a live patch service.

We do use Ubuntu a lot for desktop and servers - yet I'm not entirely sure why we would buy anything from canonical - beyond just to support the overall organization? I'd love to hear if anyone have war stories about canonical (or redhat, suse) support turning out to be a great investment?

I must admit I'm a bit worried about the shift towards snap packages though - we might shift back to Debian on the server side.
There is probably a niche for unreasonable customers who require 99.9+% uptime but do not want to pay for clustering and redundant servers. The best way to achieve that is to have a physical server that never gets rebooted. HW failures happen but you can explain to the customer it isn't your fault.
Draw a sine wave for a dancing iceberg! It's not a joke.
I get this too!

I'm barefoot and the floor of the public bathroom is too disgusting to walk onto is a common one I get.

And then, yes, I awake to discover I need to go.
Both linux and windows seem to be stagnating. Windows died when they decided to stop making new versions. How can you innovate without scrapping the old stuff? Linux was always a mishmash of poor and top notch things cobbled together. At least windows had some coherent design philosophy but that's not the case anymore. It's like they have just given up.
> For now we explore the language of a topos. There are multiple views, and often its full power is not used. Toposes support geometric logic, predicate logic, and moreover dependent type theory. We emphasize the latter: dependent types are expressive and pervasive, yet underutilized in mathematics.

The next step of the article is the realization that a topos[0] has this expressive capability from the get-go.

There's a nice list of clarifying examples in the paper[1], starting at the bottom of page 2, for instance, stacks with push and pop, untyped lambda calculus, monad comprehension syntax in Haskell (sort of like a generalization of async/await syntax), and so on. This quote in particular seems exciting:

We aim to implement native type theory as a tool which inputs the formal semantics of a language and outputs a type system, which can then be used to condition an entire codebase. Properly integrated, it could introduce expressive type theory directly into everyday programming. To do so, we plan to utilize the progress made in language specification

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topos

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.04672.pdf
Their feet are kept slightly above freezing by the very mechanism explained by the article. It's a heat exchanger, basically. Warm blood from the heart is used to keep cold blood in the extremities from freezing, and this "double loop" system is much more efficient than pushing warm blood directly into the feet where thermal losses would be much greater.
...are you the AI?
“Pandemic Precautions” Left Some Texas Shelters Closed Homeless Froze to Death
Nice! What was the biggest challenge for you and your son? I'm particularly interested on how you approached this with him and how he felt during the development process
Windows brings out a new version every six months. This is a much faster rate of development than the old "every three years" or more.
If you use Google Cloud, use Cloud Monitoring (formerly Stackdriver) to set up policies and alerts. There is a Google Cloud Console mobile app that throws you the alerts. If you don't use Google Cloud, you can also use Cloud Monitoring (Stackdriver supports AWS, and probably still does)

In addition to that, use managed services as much as possible. On Google Cloud I use a lot of Cloud Run and Cloud SQL, and infrastructure work is kept to a minimum.
France is not so "happy" with nuclear.

A state law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") states that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewables must replace it.

In France nuke-power is backed by gas (which produced 10,3% of gridpower in 2017).

The sole reactor currently planned (Flamanville-3) is a complete disaster, more than 10 years behind schedule and 4x overbudget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
A business making money? Outrage!
I would prefer one that works! How on earth they have managed to make this thing with 'recovery partition' to become 'not bootable'???

They officially say it can become 'not bootable' if the interrupt occurs during system update. BUT I've got it
'not bootable' without any power interrupts during the very first day.

After simple reinstall attempt without any power interrupts this sh..t didn't boot at all !!!

It showed black screen with big exclamation mark and url to support which basically says ... go find another Mac to boot this one ... (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211868).
Thanks Apple! Very nice advice with COVID situation

The irony is I bought this one as 'another Mac' to fix the previous one that have fallen apart. You can dig in my comments how.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25809097

I would really prefer simple booting from external drive at this point.

This is the buggiest thing I EVER had. Even the screenshot doesn't work properly. It reacts to(CmdShift-4) after ~2!!! second delay while on previous Mac it was instant.

"Very fast" some say? I still wish to see it, because so far it feels just like the one I had before or slower! I am not talking about benchmarks, I am talking about day to day experience.

And there are bugs bugs and bugs. I have stopped counting honestly. Just another one as example: Playing something in Garage Band and going to settings gives dialog saying sound engine was not able to process ...
I never saw something like that before.

And of course enormous amount of useless dialogs with especially jumpy animation just to annoy you enough. It reminds micros..t more and more. I believe this particular 'dialogs feature' have been introduced in Vista? But Vista had another beautiful feature - erasing it and install something that works. Unfortunately here we do not have even this, because it simply would not boot !

Goodness, my feeling is: Can Apple make at least something these days that 'just works' ?
Building a buffer pool manager in Go
How the Internet Has Turned into the Modern-Day Battlefield
The first part is not included. That's just our current context adding some extra sauce :D
When browsing remote server, I select a file, menu Edit - Copy. Go to another place on remote server, Edit - Paste. It starts downloading file to my macbook for some reason.
From what I've read it's 4 times more expensive than the absolute top consumer connection here (8.5 Gbps fiber). So for some considerable future: not in my country.
They used to be more desktop focused (e.g.: Unity, Ubuntu Touch) but they dismantled those teams and laid off their members.
Because of… how the social media, and your social bubble, fundamentally works? An article that becomes popular on one site naturally spreads to other sites by people sharing it. Also, the Baader–Meinhof effect, which primes you to notice things you've learned about recently.
I'm a theoretical physicist. UBI would absolutely free me and most of my colleagues from grant writing (and IT freelancing, which frankly has better ROI at this point). I do basically all of my research on a mildly high end home computer and bits of paper.
And because the libux kernels are gpl, they can't even take a look at the linux implementation of the drivers when implementing fuchsia drivers.
It depends. Most non toy projects are done by more than one person. The tools work great for one person and you can stitch them together, say MLflow or GuildAI for tracking experiments and saving models, MinIO for data as they have merged a pull request to support versioned buckets.

However, if you're more than two people, the increase in complexity is substantial, because the workflows are different.

We use our own machine learning platform, https://iko.ai, to do machine learning projects. What we've done is leverage our experience for the past seven years doing ML for large organizations, and we're removing every part that sucked and offloading it to the platform.

It really depends what kind of work you're doing. If you're experimenting in the week-end on toy projects with no stakes, then anything goes. If you're on a team and you need access to data, collaborate on notebooks, have fresh environments, track experiments, launch training jobs, deploy and monitor models, the complexity is exponential.

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940923
> Maybe my assumption here is wrong and there are plenty of people out there living with their families who are in as precarious a situation as I currently find myself.

Yes, you are wrong. Everybody I know with little kids is suffering the same social isolation as you. 4 year olds do not count as socializing, especially when all of our kids are also feeling the negative effects of isolation as well.

Besides that, you specifically mentioned doing self-care. It's amazing you have the time and energy to do it. My day starts at 530am (if I'm lucky) and the only time I could work out is after the girls go to bed.

I could think of plenty of ways to get some form of social interaction if I wasn't so stretched. All my single coworkers are playing video games together and doing zoom hangouts. My friends do a poker night and I can't stay up late enough because I'm so worn out by the time it starts. I've barely spoken to anyone besides my wife, who is also being slowly ground into dust, unless you count my weekly one on one with my manager.

I'm not trying to one up anybody. If anything I think that most of us are going through some comparable form of mental anguish. The irony is that Covid keeps us from seeing how other people go through it too
The Kernel is one big chunk of many to make up a distro
I meant, how to make the calculation so that the speed is the same in horizontal and diagonal direction.

Imagine a chessboard where every square is 1 meter wide. When the king moves horizontally, his speed is 1 meter per turn. When he moves diagonally, his speed is 1.4 meter per turn. How would you define the rules so that the speed is same in all angles? (Not just 0 and 45 degrees, but also e.g. 13 degrees.)

Can you make in Conway's game of life an expanding circle that remains circular at large scale (and doesn't become e.g. some kind of octagon)?

In our universe all directions are equivalent. If you fly in a rocket, you can't distinguish between moving horizontally or diagonally according to some hypothetical absolute coordinates of the universe. (The theory of relativity is based on the assumption that there is no such thing as absolute coordinates, not even the coordinate of time!) Which makes me suspect the models that assume the existence of some absolute coordinates (such as a 3D grid of Planck-sized cubes).
California law says conditional resignations count when the conditions are met. Gebru proposed discussing a resignation date after she was back from vacation.[1] Those conditions were not met.

California law allows the employer to accelerate the last day of work. Not the effective date of resignation.

Gebru advised coworkers to stop writing documents about DEI initiatives. Not to stop work.

[1] https://twitter.com/timnitgebru/status/1334341991795142667
Yes - there are quite a few engineering doctors in Germany - the ex-CEO of Daimler is one, Dr Dieter Zetsche.

My dad worked a lot in Germany for Dow Corning in the 80's and 90's and it's a very distinct engineering culture from many other places.
You don't. I've never been employed full time and school was hell. Best I can do is hack from home. Maybe it'll sustain me one day.
Eh, jira can be fine so long as you keep it simple and just use it to track pieces of work in progress, bugs etc.

By the time you're hiring a jira specialist and talking about workflows and restricted state transitions, something has probably gone very wrong though.

Also worth remembering, as we rail against this stuff - good people don't need to be encumbered by that much process to produce good things, especially in small groups. But not everyone is that good, and groups don't always stay small. Not that that means that adding process is always right, but it is another factor to keep in mind.
I expect there is a hardware failure on your M1.
UniFi 6 Lite In-Depth Review and Speed Comparison
Cassia is also in the cinnamon family (Cinnamomum cassia), and the difference is fairly subtle.

But yes, the American obsession with cinnamon is next level. Things like Big Red (cinnamon chewing gum) are pretty much unknown elsewhere.
Which distro(s) of Linux have you been using that you find it to be stagnating?

My experience has been the complete opposite.
Indeed, and the reason for that, I think, is that if you are at a level of capabilities where you are able to provide services, you have specific needs and ideas about how your business works. You can't outsource your business logic and customer care to some mass product and stay in business.
Honestly the problem is windows sucks way more.
I have Linux (Ubuntu) and window on my laptop and I shudder when I have to use Windows. Windows is so damn slow! I'm just shocked at how long it can take to do the most basic tasks on windows.

If Excel and Word were on Linux I would never use Windows again. The Linux alternatives (especially for Excel) are not up to scratch.
Am liking Google sheets and docs more and more.
Apple updating the subscription sheet with clearer pricing and trial information
> This is the buggiest thing I EVER had. Even the screenshot doesn't work properly. It reacts to(CmdShift-4) after ~2!!! second delay while on previous Mac it was instant.

That's not an issue I've experienced. Screenshot works instantly for me (both CmdShift-3 and CmdShift-4).

> "Very fast" some say? I still wish to see it, because so far it feels just like the one I had before or slower! I am not talking about benchmarks, I am talking about day to day experience.

What are you running? I'm comparing my M1 air to two a year and old MBP (which admittedly has half the RAM), and it flies in comparison; both in perceived and actual performance. The MBP has consistently latency in the UI animations, which makes using it a pain; and the fan constantly blares at the slightest hint of CPU activity.

> Goodness, can Apple make something that 'works' these days?

For most people, it seems to be working for them. So it looks like they can make something that 'works', but you've apparently run into an extreme edge case alongside some poor luck.
A Cannon to Kill a Fly
Awaking the Raspberry Pico from deep sleep
Chaos Carnival: Cultivate a Corporate Culture for Chaos Engineering
Try bombas wool. Great everyday wool sock