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Considering the absolute horror show of sleaze and incompetence of the last few years, the BBC has become notorious for not holding the government to account.

An Italian civil servant is a non-story compared to the £37bn given to the UK's private sector to run a poor-to-nonexistent COVID test and trace scheme.

For comparison the entire annual budget of the NHS is £44bn. And the government refused to increase the pay of doctors and nurses who have more or less singlehandedly held the NHS together through COVID.

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/19/covid-19-test-and-trace...

Among other stories. That's just the worst of an appalling raft of cash-for-cronies handouts.

But the BBC rarely publishes news about Europe at all. And when it does it's often negative.

Not only do we have a story about an Italian civil servant, but also - coincidentally - there's news about Malta's EU cash-for-passports scheme.

Which is more or less identical to the UK's cash-for-passports scheme. But less expensive.
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>downstream effect of spinning up more demand for solar energy in general.

But we don't just need more solar. We need less non-renewable energy to be consumed.

Solar may replace it but adding tones of solar to retire polluting sources is not directly addressing the issue at stake but just want more solar.
As relevant as Eddie Murphy Coming to America perhaps.
> Also, not much happens? I just sit here watching numbers go up.

That describes past 10 years of my life. Fortunately, I'm (early) retiring this year.
Unless every other university also implements it, then it’s just par for the course
I think that is a reasonable measure by the LK team. In my opinion, it is the right solution in the short term, and the decision can be revised if in the future some student or someone else have problems to submit non-malicious patches. But I was specifically referring to this comment:

> As far as I'm concerned this university and all of its alumni are radioactive.

That is not a practical issue, but a too broad generalization (although, I repeat, I may have missed something).
It would be interesting to take each of these filesystems in a simulated environment and zero out stripes of data to see what it would take to kill the disk. All of these fancy filesystems are supposed to have redundancy and error detection in their core structures. But I wonder how well that’s tested - if you simulate single block read failures, are there any blocks that would totally corrupt btrfs or zfs? How about adjacent block pairs?

Seems like a pretty easy test to run and if it found problems, they’d be well worth fixing. (And you could do the test itself pretty efficiently on a ramdisk).
So it's just a financial issue and has nothing to do with energy?
Looks like an interesting prototype. The problem is, though, is it just a funky UI on top of Webkit/Blink and V8? There's no real innovation under the hood, here - although some of the GUI features look nice.
To counteract the negative take with my own somewhat, I have found that people are quite happy to have deep and broad consultants. What you say is on point, just for me the customer fires can get quite technical and span many technologies
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This is really awesome, I love the map for tracking existing papers and exploration for finding relevant ones. Any thoughts of supporting other integrations into something like Notion? Would be awesome to use Litmaps as the central index and attach notes on the papers.

Where are you indexing your articles from? Plenty of ML/CS articles, but wasn't able to find someone by their Orchid ID in the Biology/Chemistry space.

Looking forward to the full release.
> My second question is how is this hacker news relevant?

And the third question is, how is she on the front page? Are there that many readers of Hacker News who are interested in contemporary Russian poetry?
It's believe it's still the default for Wordpress and SugarCRM.
This is hacker news where everyone values their time at at least $100/hr. If you're socializing you, at the very least, aren't working.
> containers provide less security than people imagine

Well sure, this heavily depends on the people you're talking to and what their imaginations are like. If it's the "containers are lightweight VMs" crowd then sure -- that view is fundamentally wrong.

> Linux control groups provide no meaningful resource isolation.

So this is a pretty bold claim -- as far as I can see processes certainly get OOMkilled when they use more resources than allowed for by their cgroup.

Do you have a link you could share? Is some fundamental part of cgroups (v1? v2?) broken in some way I haven't heard of up until now such that everyone has patched around it and it does what it says on the tin but despite the code in the kernel?
It's true if you consider UI to be more about empowering users, making easy things easy and more difficult things possible, rather than just good looks. I think a valid argument can be made that repeated firefox ui changes have had to do with good looks and not much else.
> why are people obsessed with container size

Good question! Security should be a priority instead.

A lot of containers on docker hub have serious vulnerabilities, as proven by various research papers. Removing bloat is good for security.

However, using a well-tested distro and receiving security updates from its security team is more important than having a tiny footprint.

This is a good reason to use Debian stable in containers and avoid alpine.
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I'm so happy to see someone made this! I asked for something similar a few months ago and got crickets. I found something from the 90's that surely people had built on and I would have liked to see what had been done since but, manually tracing through everything would have been exhausting.

https://twitter.com/IanTB01/status/1359969167760371720
true. good point. poor choice of words. my apologies.
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Sarcasm. That’s what. He had 150 years in prison. Read: effective life in prison. What more punishment would you suggest? Oh two effective life in prison sentences? Gulag? Slow torture?
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Since there's nothing in the article even remotely suggesting the nature of the threat I'm curious what your source is.
You're getting a lot of comments on the naming/presentation that I think are worth considering, but I want to say that the tool itself looks great. There are so many workflows that we twist into pretzels, and over-engineer one interface point or another, because we don't have a way to trivially put a human interface in the right spot. I will 100% try this.

With that said, I see a big blocker to many use cases. One of the main reasons you add humans to workflows is to deal with unstructured data, which can often be sensitive. Have you considered offering a managed service or self-hosted option so that orgs can control their own data flow?
Interesting, I would like a video to watch that explains it, please.
But that’s not what happens. Data centers have been getting bigger and bigger and bigger and now we literally talk about planning gigawatt scale data centers. No “data center” took the efficiencies of Moore’s law and said “we good, we can stop making more complicated uses of computers now and just run what we already have on more efficient hardware”.

So then it comes down to, we’ll is that extra processing these data centers doing useful or wasteful? And that’s all subjective. Some of its more clear cut probably: work that leads to new medicine probably useful. Work that hijacks dopamine processes to addict people. Arguably not useful. But how do we determine that fairly? And where would we draw a line on this kind of moral policing of energy use?
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Core engines no, but Godot scene model overall fits very well for making 2D games. You end up using naturally named things, composing stuff on a 2D plane, etc. I'm sure an experienced unity user can cut through the noise.
It doesn't seem to suck for higher admin types...they treat the student like a customer and therefore never expel them for cheating. System is broken because of incentives (of course).
I believe unicodes mission is to include all characters expressable in all writing systems “in the real world”, and being a replacement for major text encoding is seen as part of accomplishing that mission.
You're feelings of guilt have nothing to do with externally imposed punishment. Everybody is going to react differently. Since will feel tremendous guilt and some won't. Even if they do, some will handle it well and some won't. It's not an effective way to mete out punishment.

The world is senseless enough already. (I believe) the best we can do as humans is to try to make it a little more fair, which means connecting negative effects to negative causes. And when we do the opposite, we build systems that sow chaos. To that end, I have to say I'm actually philosophically offended by your suggestion.
Survival of the fittest! Hahaha
Interesting, what other stand iconology is present in unicode ? general safety ? road safety ? chemistry ?
Well, yeah. The studies were all longitudinal studies relying on self-reporting and some found an increased risk for >5 cups per day. Since a ”cup” is not a well defined measurement anyway, these are not very rigorous studies. It’s baffling that scientists so readily interpret these results to mean something, when it’s infinitely more likely they’ve missed some unexpected confounders.

I found no mention of MAO inhibitors, beta-carbolines or heterocyclic aromatic amines in coffee. The authors seem to be unaware of their existence, even though they could explain the results in many ways.
Or just ship a .deb

It contains everything you need, can provide sandboxing, integrates well in the OS, can do deploy and rollback, manages configuration changes.
Unicode is supposed to encode writing. These are not part of any writing system I'm aware of. If Unicode adds these, that steps over the line from being descriptive (ie. this is writing actually in use), to prescriptive (ie. these should be treated as writing).

Maybe that boat already sailed with emojis, though.

I think the main motivation for stuff like this is for people to feel good about having an impact on something like Unicode. I fail to see how this adds any value to Unicode.
IMHO it's because of a clear pattern of attempts to do artificial things to food turning out badly. Trans-fats are bad for you. Artificial preservatives are bad for you. Nitrites are bad for you. There's a lot more.

People don't understand the technology but they do see the general pattern here.
Cool, in the screenshots I don’t see anything that looks like GMAIL which is the largest data hog in my google drive. How does email get handled here?

Did you look for inspiration in any desktop disk analyzer tools? Usually a tree map is used instead of the circular layout you’ve chosen.
Well, my approach is to limit my day-to-day clothes buying to just those washable in 40°C and machine dryable. Makes both the shopping and life overall so much easier.
I prefer the term "Proof of Waiste" ("PoW")
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This presumed that private corporations have rights. I’d posit that they do not. They are legal, government created entities, which is different than the individual persons the Bill of Rights was written for. Furthermore, why would we want to grant the power to limit speech to private corporations when we don’t allow governments to do so? The latter is a democratically elected group while the former is almost the complete opposite.

These corporations are as big as governments, but y’all want to give them the rights of individuals. Only they’re run like top-down oligarchies with little to no accountability for their actions.
Have you had a look at www.courier.com? Seems to be much needed notification system in a box (aaS). I haven't used yet but would be keen to get your views on it for future.
This is just such a staring, atypical comment of someone who has spent their entire career as a technical bod, and hasn't the faintest idea how an ordinary person uses technology.

The people are NEVER the problem.
If you're going for size, why not just sidecar all of the "standard posix-compliant tools" but ones that you would want normally. For example, bash instead of ash/dash. You don't need those tools all the time right?
It has, and Pfizer and Biontec in particular have scaled up production quite effectively (delivering more than originally committed). AstraZeneca is fairly dramatically behind on production (delivered about 33% of commitments in the EU so far), and at this point it feels like the European Commission has basically abandoned it; its contract is apparently not getting renewed.
Probably not. The price of logs has not risen like the price of lumber.
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Is it just me or has it become more common for journalists to write about decreases by saying "X-fold" or "x times"?

I always get confused, I find it much easier to say "by 97%".
You are describing sandboxing and it's completely orthogonal to containers.
You know, I bet it wouldn't take that much to go from epub to PDF, suitable for printing and binding. The structural information is pretty much all there, I think - it'd just need pagination and formatting for print, really.

I'd definitely want to use such a thing, as a way to feed my bookbinding hobby. I wonder if anyone else would?
when I went to school in Russia the great writers were those whos portraits we had on the wall in literature class. I'm sure she was not among them )))
I've tried reading her book "in memory of memories" got stuck, but not in an unpleasant way, maybe will give it a try later;
I couldn't help but chuckle at the text "size of bubble = bitcoin mining power" at the top of the charts... one wonders if it is intentional
Why would it seem it seem like that?

The fact that prostitution is illegal is part of what empowers bad people to victimize others: As soon as you have turned your first trick, you are guilty of a crime and cannot go to the police to turn them in without confessing to the crime you just committed.

That's exactly how child molesters also operate: By making the child feel complicit so they won't tell anyone.
It’s funny that they are downvoting you for stating the obvious no-brainer explanation.

Just curious as I am seeing more of this on HN lately or is it just the Baader Meinhof phenomenon after I read someone else complain about the recent downvoting phenomenon for stating the obvious. Has the readership changed of HN or more specifically the commentariat?
Universities don't give a shit about that. And they shouldn't. A lot of diplomas are worthless, but that doesn't make the education worthless.
I have linked to this before but I like it so much I will link to it again: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

The TL;DR is that for people 20-29, in the case where there is a low level of Covid-19 expected to be circulating in the community ("low" meaning incidence of around 2 in 10,000), the balance of risk vs harm is against taking the AZ vaccine if offered. In every other case (older age group or higher incidence of covid), the balance is in favour of AZ. Of course, this doesn't account for the possibility that the patient has a choice of vaccines.
I've worked in the general automation space for awhile, and agree that time-to-result is rarely the limiting factor.

It's also not usually total-person-clock-time.

It's number-of-distinct-manual-steps.

(5 minutes manual) + (15 minutes automation) + (5 minutes manual) + (30 minutes automation) = everyone hates doing it

(10 minutes manual) + (45 minutes automation) = everyone's happy and can use their time productively
Aka Amorphophallus titanum aka corpse lily

A few are in Sydney and Melbourne Australia, but you'd have to be lucky to see them in their three days of flowering after seven years.
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As @brundolf said.

Whilst you can run Intel code via Rosetta indefinitely(), Apple's strategic position is no more Intel hardware.

I'm typing this on a 2013 MBP. I'm personally waiting for an M2 chip, which I expect will follow Moore's law, albeit for ARM. Which backs up your point.

() indefinitely as defined by Apple is until they change their mind.
No, you are confusing containers with sandboxing and they are completely orthogonal.
This is not a typical "how I wanted my privacy back" story, this is an advertisement for a new browser Synth.

It's shitck is that it does total surveillance on your browsing habits and builds "AI" to suggest personalized content and search results. The website lacks any technical details, but I think they may do all this locally, without sending any data to remote servers. But there is also sync feature, so the remote servers are involved.

There are other minor features which are pretty cool, like vertical tab bar and page archiving support.

Oh, and you cannot download this browser yet, you need to get on waitlist. It is not clear which platforms will it run on.
> There's almost no "we shall fight them on the beaches" or "not because they are easy but because they are hard" and way more process, lawsuits, committees, etc.

Are you... suggesting dealing with AZ's failure to deliver by storming their offices, or something? Like, what is the actual actionable thing that the EC should be doing here, other than legal action?
I recently switched from AWS to Google due to the complexity of managing AWS. However, I am not willing to use ANY proprietary GCP services or any tools at any level. Firebase looks amazing, not a chance I’ll use it.

GCP is great if you’re going to stick to containers and Cloud SQL. You can pick up your toys and leave if Google tries some stupid shenanigans.

But for the time being I am saving money directly by hosting on GCP, and saving even more money by not needing as much DevOps investment.

Honestly I think people are so used to AWS that they don’t realize how much of a complicated mess it’s become.
Because Apple cares a lot about their security, and the perception of security, and they have a lot of lawyers with nasty teeth. Using stolen unlicensed Apple technology to hack people's iOS devices is like eating a bear cub in front of mama bear.
This only scans Google Drive, so emails are not included. The UI is heavily inspired by my favorite macOS app, Daisy Disk. :)

I'll look into adding a treemap visualization. Thanks for the feedback!
Turn the temperature down. You shouldn't dry anything that hot, it just wastes energy.
escpae-dot (.) also works for this:
"It also works to use !$ instead of escape-dot, but that is slightly harder to type, so I don’t use that anymore."

Wrote about it here: https://henrikwarne.com/2018/08/11/my-favorite-command-line-...
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> I don't understand why this isn't being done more.

I can only offer one explanation: marketing.
The interest is set at 4% because that was typical for a savings account in the UK when the game starts (2002) but I need to make it change over time

Yes I need to add more jobs and different career paths. Once I add universities the type of job you can get will depend on your degree.

I'm going to add a dating aspect to the simulation so you can start a family and see the expenses associated with that.

Setting a monthly savings amount is a good idea.

Still a very early stage, rough round the edges simulation at the moment
> Multiple countries should've been preparing manufacturing facilities well in advance

They _did_. The only reason that production has gone as well as it has (particularly with Pfizer and Biontec) is massive public and private investment in facilities.
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Would it possible to alias the escape codes make by the up arrow as 'cd ..'
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Calibre website strongly recommends downloading from their site instead of OS packages, mentioning that the packages are often out of date. And I've generally found this to be true - Calibre versions on package repos are often several versions behind, more than the usual "package maintainer trying to play catch up" differences.

I'm usually averse to the wget|sh installs, but in this case it seems worth it. You can inspect the .sh file (which is really mostly Python code) before running it, just to not get into the bad habit of directly piping in code from the internet.
Human trafficking doesn’t necessarily mean victimizing anyone, in my understanding - it can also mean someone being paid to smuggle someone else into a country voluntarily (in contravention of immigration laws). I would suspect this form of trafficking to increase if prostitution is legal and widespread.
While technically that's true, in most cases that's a flaw with employment contracts because such a stipulation creates wrong incentives: If an employee engages in pointless pretend work such as continuously checking emails all day long technically the time requirement of that contract has been met but the employer gets only very little value from that, if at all.

Sadly, to some extent this is - or used to be, since remote work might change that kind of culture, too - the reality in many corporate jobs, where the hours put in matter more than the results.
Interesting...

The document you linked to says they are "protected under trademark law", not copyright.

I would guess they are "certification marks", which are a bit different from a normal trade mark like "Apple" or whatever.

Their web site says: "GINETEX IS AN INDEPENDENT NON-PROFIT ASSOCIATION UNDER FRENCH LAW". So I would hope the fees are not exorbitant. But who knows? It's an independent organisation. If it did turn evil, would the French government intervene?
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You just need sub-millimeter precision, on a slippery glass remote made for babies with small hands, and then to time it so you touch the trackpad then click it such that you activate the skip back/skip forward function, but not so long that a cursor appears on the timeline. It's really fun, kind of like if your bank required you to do a little dance every time you wanted to buy something.
How do you then suggest discussing matters of fact, which are nevertheless still inflammatory?

I was completely appealed when I saw an article on Holodomor few month ago being both flagged, and flamewared to death right on Holodomor's remembrance day.

To me it very much appeared as a book burning for the sake of "civilized discourse"