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Cosmopolitan is RHEL5 compatible so you can have the manylinux1 holy grail. I love you for posting here. You get it. It's all about reducing the dimensionality of your support vector. No one wants combinatorial explosions of toolchain triplets leading to broken builds and broken hearts.
Agreed, and the terrifying use-cases aren't hypothetical, they're the raison d'etre. There are some good "plowshares" type projects out there, but I'm not sure those ends justify the original and ongoing ones
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Thanks to this thread for pointing out that in multiple governments the distinction is in fact formal.

I am tempted to grumble that, once again, the rationalists are ignorant of the ways the world actually works.
Hm perhaps, but look at it this way assuming a job/team change isn’t possible.

If you can condense a winding conversation with your manager at whatever time they decide to intrude with this behavior into a timeline and format that you control, but also works for their needs, that IMO is a significantly better outcome.

The other side of this is this tends to sort of heal micromanagers as a pleasant side effect. Managing upwards usually really tunes down the behavior to ab entirely manageable level, in most situations except the “time to leave the job” types.
Sure, a lot depends on the exact formulation of the batteries.

It still makes me nervous. Most of what you said was about lithium ion batteries, which is irrelevant here. I gather that you know that, and I do as well, but I thought it was worth spelling out for the general reader.
I firmly believe that it will be. However it won't be anytime soon because this entails a transition similar to going from rule by king to rule by laws.

The law is (nowdays) is backed by writing, and since I think that computing is a next step in the evolution of writing (along with printing press) one day---likely in dozens of generations (hundreds of years)---the law will be backed by computing.

All these technologies change the nature of a human's consiouness; it will take hundreds of years. Look at Walter Ong's work for better made arguments along these lines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_J._Ong
cheap headline, the billing system is one of the most important parts of any business..not just the owner getting paid!
The idea that simpler laws won't get exploited is... Well, I get it, because that's how one operates in computer security, but the way the law works is necessarily quite different. It's not designed so much to make doing what is illegal impossible as it is to make it possible to prosecute those doing things that we'd like to discourage.
The insight is largely in what not to do!
> repealing the original laws and replacing them with a single law that covers everything in one place. Legal refactoring if you like. I can only imagine that would be a humungous task. And presumably the existence of case law makes it much harder still.

These are called Reform Acts. They are indeed humungous tasks, rarely undertaken. Where I studied law, in the Northern Territory, a Law of Property Act was passed in 2000 and repealed Acts and overruled case law going back to the 12th century in Britain. It was indeed a massive effort.

For some areas of law the Act is also a Code (the Act explicitly says that it is the sole, whole body of the relevant law). This is mostly done for criminal law.

Codes are rare in common law jurisdictions like the US, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand etc. Codes are much more common in civil law countries like France, where the ideal is for all of law to be centralised and rationalised. Both systems require endless tinkering, debate and reinterpretation, which is why I am skeptical of universalist missions to convert the whole of the law into a system of formal symbols.
> The secondary issue with helium is that it's much lighter than air

Actually, hydrogen is lighter, and so a better lifting gas, than helium.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lifting_gas#/Hydrogen
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> A bunch of recent high profile failures have caused VCs to cool on the space.

VCs have been "cool" on the hardware space since 2001.

Why fund hardware which can take 5-10 years to go somewhere when you can fund the latest social garbage fad and it will take off or fail completely within 36 months?
I know the twitter lynch mob doesn't understand many things but just to reiterate - homosexuality is a crime in Palestine. They will kill you for it. You still want to support them?
Many night shift jobs already pay a shift differential. Many employees seek out those shifts. Why would we, as a society, want to prevent these seemingly mutually beneficial arrangements? Don’t like shift work? Don’t take a job that requires it, but don’t ban others who do prefer it from taking it because you don’t like it.
Your point about my argument regarding BBC's credibility based on this one point is fair, I can see how my argument can reasonably be considered overstated.

Your point about "fixating" (assuming you're referring to me) is not fair. If you want to accuse someone of being fixated on this point, please direct your critique at the BBC and other media outlets who repeat the phrase about Gaza and only Gaza (not all of the other more populous places) constantly.
What does it matter, beyond natural curiosity, whether it was released from a lab or not? It is of no real consequence because:

(1) if it *was* released from a lab, its highly suspect that it was intentional due to it infecting China's own citizens; if it was some kind of "attack" you would think they would plant it somewhere else.

(2) this is somewhat of the price we (as a society) pay for experimentation on diseases and viruses. It suffers from it-could-happen-here-ism where COVID or a COVID-like disease could be released by any other country and we'd still be in the exact same situation.

So, in my mind, the only definitive issue is whether it was released maliciously or by accident. If it was malicious, that's a completely different, crimes against humanity, type problem. If it was not, then I don't think it matters really how COVID happened.
I sell open-source hardware and get plenty of sales to Russia and even occasionally China in USD. I think they appreciate the fact I don't charge stupid shipping fees to people in smaller markets.
> “Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society,”

Ethical criminals... Lol... That's rich.

These are people with some skill, and they choose to use it for evil. This isn't a spur of the moment crime.
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You can't fight hate with hate; you can bet your top dollar that those who try end up being worse than the ones they fight against...
I've used WooCommerce before for my wife's online store. I hosted it in DO. It's okay, but not as good as Shopify in terms of payments, inventory management etc. I also ended up having to install a lot of plugins which most of it are in trial.
I won't speak to profit, but battery performance per dollar has been improving at a fast exponential clip for the past couple decades, which is one of the largest costs of an EV.

An EV drivetrain is also far, far simpler. Fewer parts, and less complexity in those parts. No clutch, gearbox, carburetor, differential, starter, pumps, exhaust…

A modern ICE car is an absolutely unbelievable engineering marvel, but unless battery progress unexpectedly stalls there's just no way they can keep up in price or reliability with EVs.
It also seems to have a type of per-command history. As you begin to type the command, you can tab through and auto-complete other similar commands you’ve done.
What data structures can't be implemented efficiently? Or what applications can't be architected differently to utilize CRDTs?
> European visitors are secretly tracked without their permission.

This is quite a claim to just throw in and not footnote or back up in any way.
I would love to see this succeed, if only so that their static analyzer can go around detecting vulnerabilities ("loopholes") in all sorts of common laws. Legal 0-days!
Just for reference (5950x too): ran 3 times just measuring with `time` on void linux using cargo from xbps. Mean of the last two runs (first was syncing and downloading) was ~13.8 s.
No one should have a secret ballot. A vote is a dry run for a civil war, and if one can't even publicly say that he supports a law how will he be able to help to enact that law when it is passed?

There is a curious historical fact, that in ancient Rome secret ballot was introduced in 137 BC only 14 years before Gaius Gracchus, when people being able to vote for reforms but not being able to support that reforms greatly contributed to the downfall of the republic.

Moreover the main reason that we need secret ballot now, is that elections are rare, reward for intimidating someone is huge (4 years of power), and reward for voting differently is tiny and uncertain (one or the other politician not keeping promises). But with issue based voting reward for intimidating is very small as the law can be repealed when people understand that they were forced to do something harmful to themselves, and reward for not being intimidated is much more certain.

Another source of intimidation is the opinion of friends and peers, but if you support a law for which your friends do not want to talk with you, either they are not real friends or you should not support that law. In either case being open is better than lying.
> Has this actually caused issues?

That was one of the issues for the clearinghouse with GME. When a market-maker sells short, they don't have to locate inventory prior to selling. Sometimes, they are unable to deliver to the clearinghouse, which technically forces the clearinghouse to remain short to the buyer. A "buy-in" is supposed to take place when a short seller cannot deliver, but this doesn't happen with market-makers because they get extra time under the rules, and also they tend to trade so much that the clock resets on their past undelivered shorts every time they buy and sell (this is called a "reset transaction" and it is illegal for any other market participant to do). If a market-maker gets caught wrong-way on a position where they sold lots of shares that they neither own nor have the solvency to buy at market, they can collapse and that puts the clearinghouse itself at risk. This is why a firm like Citadel (one of the biggest market-makers) had an incentive to capitalize Melvin Capital with $2B to attenuate a squeeze. IMO it was self-preservation, not charity nor opportunity.

The SEC makes FTD data available twice monthly. You can find it here: https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm

MBS wasn't a problem because of the defaults themselves. It was a problem because the correlation of defaults was underpriced, so banks took heavy losses on positions that they thought were pristine.

> Why? Buybacks are equivalent to paying dividends and then reinvesting them (which most people do).

This isn't true. Buybacks do two things that make them highly attractive to executives. First, buybacks allow option holders (including many insiders) to generate capital appreciation on those options without exercising them. Dividends, on the other hand, distribute only to shareholders and actually reduce the price of the stock (share price drops by the amount of dividend on ex-date). Second, buybacks provide a perpetual bid to the stock that mitigates the downward impact of selloffs, which is particularly nice for executives that receive performance incentive bonuses based on share price. With something like an ASR (a more complicated buyback traded against a derivatives desk), buying may even get more aggressive (in terms of % of total volume) as the stock declines. Buybacks are rationalized as capital return but really they are a form of inducing asset inflation.
>Coinbase is very manipulative so they should get regulated.

Ironic given that coinbase is one of the more regulated exchanges out there (the others being gemini and kraken). You can definitely go worse, eg. bitfinex or binance.
This makes no sense. Both the app store and amazon is someone elses store wrt Fortnite
"Skepticsm" is when over educated pseudo-intellectuals want THEIR theories to have the ring of "science," while dismissing others as conspiracy theorists.
> The current plan is to 6x the funding for gain-of-function research, from $200 million to $1.2 billion, in the name of pandemic prevention.

Do you have a source for this? Because if true this would be extremely frightening, even if Covid is natural the research is just too risky. GoF research should be banned, I mean it's entire justification for conducting this research in the first place is that it "helps predict new emergent diseases and develop vaccines" but it failed to predict this pandemic and did nothing towards vaccine development.
As a potential user, I am quite unsure as to why I would use this over something like TexStudio or even VSCode enabled with some LaTeX plugins. Could you tell me/us some pro/cons of this?
A year ago, I found Volument's mini-manifesto "Minimalism: an undervalued development skill"[1] on HN (discussion [2]) and it resonated hard with me.

I worked in Marketing and community at DigitalOcean over five years as it scaled. I had contributed to a hodge-podge of overlapping analytics tools running in managed chaos at my company, I had watched another team get hoodwinked into a multi-year deal with a big analytics/testing tool that had been in development for months without yielding a single test, I had seen people throughout the company struggle to find answers to basic analytics questions due to the complexity of the tool stack.

I got a Volument pilot going on the public part of our site, and while the scale really strained the Volument infrastructure, I absolutely loved the opinionated and simple interface.

It was like what Netlify did for static-site hosting, applied to analytics. Volument took the 3000 views and features of a legacy provider like GA and just figured out what people actually need and boiled it down to 5.

I've changed companies since, but am excited to test this new version at my current company. The people at Volument are super-great and responsive, and if the new one is anything like the original it's going to be very useful.

[1] https://volument.com/blog/minimalism-the-most-undervalued-de...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871491
Disk is (or can be) short for diskette - which means a disc in a protective sheath.

Meanwhile a "disc" is any flat circular object.

So floppy disk, hard disk, but compact disc, is correct.

The only medium I know of that doesn't obey this rule is the Sony MiniDisc. MDs are definitely diskettes, and so should in theory be spelled MiniDisk. But presumably that's for trademark reasons.
loosely related...

* your ability to sense walls in your environment from the sound of your footsteps reflecting off them and not walk into them

I think you can actually navigate in the dark by clicking your tongue or your fingers and detect obstacles. I know some blind people actually use this echolocation to help them get around. Might be fun to try.
Any positives from the "war on drugs?"
Ugh. Just as I suspected. The pure idea of it has merit. It could be very helpful to true creators to get feedback and develop community. But there's a lot of risk of base instincts and abuse of others for one's own anonymous entertainment. It could turn sick fast.
>- Yes, see how they took a position on the heart of this issue — the occupied territories themselves. They literally erased Palestine from the map.

The US government doesn't recognize Palestine. Therefore displaying the occupied territories as a distinct state would be the more politicalized option compared with displaying them as they currently do. Either way, it just goes to show that the idea of a company being apolitical becomes more difficult as it grows and eventually becomes impossible when you reach Google's size. There is no potential choice here that isn't going to be viewed politically.
I've heard this a number of times now, but is it actually true?

I find that argument hard to corroborate and there are other parsimonious explanations, like WIV was located in Wuhan because Wuhan is a major world city with high quality institutions of higher education.
Sure, because life on Gaza strip on 2006 was all moonlight and roses. Hell even going back 30 years ago you wouldn't find much difference [0]. I wonder what political force or nation could be benefiting from this constant chaos.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(comics)
That’s not a strong argument to support this or any stance.

Watching the thread to see if different arguments or observations appear.
Were the other products ETNs? For an ETF like SVXY, you are buying ownership of the underlying derivatives contracts. For an ETN like XIV, there is no underlying instrument, and you are buying exactly* the index value (which is why I bought XIV after the close that night, and it did not turn out well).

*) Subject to counterparty risk
In this case, which cross(es) are the most likely candidates for being crossed ?
HN is about as different as you can get from Reddit. For example, Reddit encourages herd behavior, minimal-effort glib interactions, and addictive content. HN discourages herd behavior, is quite difficult for most newcomers because the higher effort required, and even includes a built-in anti-procrastination feature.
Scientific Glass Blower Uses Specialized Skills to Create Unique Beer Glasses
Wait, that was supposed to be a downside?
... so Siemens now owns hackaday.com/io and Tindie?
You can read individual characters just fine from a command line app. That's what tty "raw" mode does.
At least check a few of the boxes. It will lead the discussion properly.
I would imagine you could quite efficiently encode a second view that's largely the same as the first You'd need more processing power, but not much more bandwidth that way. But the VR 180 videos I've seen so far just seem to do side by side encoding. I guess you need hardware accelerated encoding and decoding for practical use so that's preventing such a new codec for now. Unless the side by side approach is already efficient at this
love the design
I tried it (FTS5 on sql.js-httpvfs) with a 600mb FTS table containing OSM data. It works but the queries are quite a bit slower and there is quite a large difference between browsers. Some queries that took 1s in chrome took 10s in FF although I'm not sure why yet.
"There's no way it was Russia" should do it.
> I've never seen anyone write a "g" with two loops/storeys

Cursive g has two loops.
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If scientists believe a leak like this is plausible, then I don't think we need to wait for proof to push for international treaties against doing this kind of research that can have these disastrous accidental consequences. Developing super-viruses should not be allowed by the international community, including in the USA. It is too dangerous.
No, a lab escape scenario is an accident theory. The Chinese military sending infectious people to our country on purpose sounds like a conspiracy theory.
Much less drug use ... oh wait, never mind. A lot more people employed as police, court employees and prison guards?
Community needs at first - I had no intention of turning it into a business. I did paid consulting for years until SAAS became a thing that users demanded.
Then you might imagine they protect it better or have any sort of backup.
Well, I'm glad I've been using it to pick out which pressings to target haha.
Hey, author here!
The next thing I'm aiming to do is VACUUM more aggressively, like you propose. However, given that we update ~1m rows daily, I don't think that VACUUM alone would do the trick. Except if I went the opposite way and increased the pending list size a lot and VACUUM aggressively. But then I'm afraid that SELECTs could suffer because of the big (unordered) pending list.

Thank you for all of this information! I'll dive into it.

PS: your talk looks amazing. DTrace looks like an exceptional tool and the example you're making gives me a ton of ideas on how I can use it in the future. If I knew you could debug like this maybe I wouldn't have needed to ask in DBA stacked change.
I think you should rethink the name.

Here's the definition:
the formal and technical language of legal documents that is often hard to understand.
"the typed pages were full of confusing legalese"

Business people actually think it's an asset to have an attorney that is "good" with legalese, but the practice actually represents dishonesty. And attorneys are expected to catch these unclear legal language, but most won't complain b/c it requires a few extra hours of back and forth for which they can charge money for. If software is going to eat law, I hope one of the consequences of that is better allocation of legal services and more transparency in legal contracts
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Wuhan is, however, in the range of Horseshoe Bats. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_horseshoe_bat
So people who suggest that it's far from Yunnan are missing the point.
Are Paris, Kathmandu, Seol, or Hoboken under blockade by a government that claims their land but makes the people on that land stateless, and also periodically bombs their urban infrastructure?

It's possible that the density of gaza is in some way relevant to the current events taking place there in a way that it might not be for the other places you've listed.
"Imagine a space craft [..] that can fly through air, water, and possibly space, and has no obvious signs of propulsion"

This sounds A LOT like the navy patent from a few years back. All I'm going to say is that I hope the technology is ours and not in the hands of a rival.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37134/emails-show-navy...
For anyone here who is interested in the hi-fi audio experience and may be getting caught up in the debate over higher sampling rates and bit-depths, I'd like to suggest that any improvement Apple's hi-res audio is going to offer in sonic quality is nothing compared to the benefits of treating the acoustics in your listening space. Or conversely the destructive effects of NOT treating your room.

In an untreated room, moving your head to the side by a few inches will have a far greater effect on the frequency response of the recording. More than any gains you could get from upgrading to a hi-res streaming service. You have to have your speakers and your room in order before any of those differences will be appreciable. Additionally, if the reverb time of your room hasn't been controlled in the low frequencies a record with tight, articulate, bass is going to sound dense and muddy as those frequencies echo and build up in your room.

Just something to keep in mind when debating the merits of hi-res vs. a 44.1k mp3.
You're missing the point that flexibility of interpretation and "execution" is a very much desired feature.
The site is horrible. Like really really bad. Hard to read, ugly, confusing. I mean I don't want to be negative, I want to give good feedback, but I can't even copy what i want to respond to.