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The article didn't make mentions of commercial flights. The cool thing about electric drivetrains is that you can put this specific plane motor in a train... A GE90 is not a rocket engine, nor anything else. Electric powertrain densification, wether electrical, mechanical or electromechanical is a good thing for everybody on earth, similarly to how planes have allowed alot of us to go anywhere. Electric scooter, cars and bikes are helping millions get places reliably, quickly and economically with a clear advantage
The UK also has regular road convoys carrying nuclear warheads between the Atomic Weapons Establishments in Aldermaston and Burghfield and the Royal Navy Armaments Depot in Coulport.

These are a lot more obvious than the US ones (the vehicles are all marked, and they have police escorts which stop traffic at side roads). Probably also have a lot less of the James Bond kit.
If the project has a malicious maintainer, it's easier to find out if it's in the open - and either forcing change or not using the project at all. It's impossible to do that when you have no access to that information in the first place.

It's not perfect but it's something vs nothing. I'll take something every time.
They certainly do. They use loyalty clubs, rakeback deals, reward points (essentially a form of rakebak with lock in), comps, tournaments, and everything else you can think of to keep the whales engaged.
I think Betteridge's Law works just fine here. The answer to the article title is 'no' because Copilot is not just one thing used in one scenario. Depending on what situation you're in and how you use it, it could be a blessing or a curse.
> Unix and C is a living example of what happens when you think of a string as of a arbitrary sequence of bytes.

This stuff is specifically some of the big design wins of these systems. I recommend you to peek over at the Win32 API for example, with its myriads of *A and *W functions, required compiler settings and macro magic to switch between those (even though of course they can't really paper over the difference), then best practice recommendations that have changed multiple times in history, then strange bugs that appear when some invalid data has sneaked into a system that was assumed "pristine"...

Making a difference between "UTF-8" and arbitrary byte storage is like racism. It isn't only socially inacceptable, it also creates a massive bureaucratic overhead and requires duplication of implementation efforts. I call it bad engineering.
> All reports are that the M1 Macs work extremely well.

For you to say 'All reports' is straight up dishonest, when people have reported SSD wearing issues, update and recovery issues and that WAS broken on M1 Macs on launch. You have to use/buy another Mac to recover it or go to the Apple Store since November 2020 on launch day.

Maybe if it was 'working extremely well' you wouldn't need to go there and those reporting dead M1 Macs as a result of this, well lost their data and have to buy another one.

System software also counts, and particularly for M1 Macs, it did 'not work extremely well' as soon as it released in November 2020.

Even the author of this article who also uses an M1 Mac since launch day does not hide or pretend about this.
Ask HN: Simple and Free Animation Creator
I am looking for a tool which is able to create simple 2D animations.
I would like to move a 2D shape on a definable path on a timeline.

My requirements are:

- Free of charge

- Runs on linux

- Export to mp4, svg or gif is possible

Already discovered:

- GIMP

- svgator.com (not free)
If someone puts a posting on the net, they likely have to accept that there will be reactions to it. That said, I am not looking forward to a fist-fight with a wanna-be-monk, so distance is probably the key. Dont you feel a fist-fighting drinker is a rather comical mindfulness practicioner? A bit like the gay nazi, or whatever stereotypical contradiction you wanna imagine.
I’m a bit late but you _can_ uninstall the update. I’m away from my tv but it’s something like settings>apps>show system apps> Android home launcher > uninstall updates
India’s PM Modi accused of ‘treason’ over Pegasus spyware scandal
Ask HN: MVP stage startup, need guidance on a strategic person equity
Hi everyone. I wanted to get some framework to think about this situation I am in. Hoping I can get some perspective from your experience.

I have started a start-up whose MVP is out currently and we are testing every week with users and getting good insights on the problem/solution space. I am currently a solo founder and obviously want a co-founder in the not so distant future.

During the journey of putting the product out there and generally talking about the problem in public, I encountered this person (lets call them "P"). P has good insights on the problem area and they have been a product person with significant experience (decades).

They feel quite passionate about the problem space. Our insights on the problem, mission for the company resonate quite well. They have also been thinking of starting up in this space for a number of years (but haven't yet).

We started doing sprints together where they opined (advised) on the product aspects, sat with me on user interviews and we brainstormed different aspects together. Their inputs have been very useful generally. We have discussed how we can work together. They envision their role to be that of opining/advising on product roadmap, features and direction based on insights on data and user testing given their deep empathy with problem and expertise in product field generally. They also have expertise in team, culture and company building - that they expect to contribute towards as the company grows.

They have a number of side things too - like their own consulting business so they will be devote 7-9 hours per week towards this and maybe going to 20 in the future.

I will be doing the heavy lifting of building, growth, project/product management (running sprints, delivery etc), customer support, logistics of the product itself, hacking way through things etc. Now these seem to be a lot of tasks on my plate but idea is to get another co-founder onboard (or employees depending on how this goes). I am currently working 40-50 hours per week on this and doing all the execution. As the start-up matures, I will also transit completely full time on this (>50 hrs).

Now P wishes to be co-founder in this relationship with double digit equity (less than 50% though), whereas I think this is an advisory role (with single digit equity, but more than what FAST advocates). Which is where we do not agree - as P wishes to have a founder's say in company's decision making and future. And I believe the level of contribution that we have discussed is not in line with the equity ask.

Have you encountered or been in such a situation and what is the best way think about it?

I would really appreciate your insights and help. Thank you.
It's probably not in your interest since you'd go to jail and the whole metaphor seems quite simplistic to me.
Since you seem to be talking about ethics, not interests, If Israel supports Egypt's El-Sisi is that immoral? Yes he is a despot, but the opposition is worse. Same can be said about Israel's support to the Palestinian Authority. It's quite difficult to know what the right thing to do is. Israel wants good relation with these countries for obvious reasons.
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Nah. That line was a sop to the metadata advocates by pretending that some forms of useful not-metadata (or at least not capital-M Metadata) are actually metadata. Sometimes we overcorrect when an overhyped technology doesn't live up to expectations. But other times there really is no there there and the whole thing is just completely useless.
Isn't the public money being thrown at SpaceX through NASA?

NASA knows exactly what they're buying. They've just become such a bureaucratic, top-heavy, risk-adverse organization (by Congressional design) that it's a better deal to outsource pieces to SpaceX.
> Just wait until Rust starts being used across the kernel, if compilation speed is an issue.

I don't expect people to start (re)writing their drivers in Rust anytime soon. Maybe some PoC things and stray FAANG-devs aiming for promotions, but it is highly unlikely I will need to have those drivers enabled. Hope Rust compilation times improve by the time it becomes mainstream in systems.

> At least with C++ most corporations actually use binary libraries, we aren't doing Gentoo style across our codebases.

This is not relevant for the kernel development (Linus' case) and doesn't match my experience working with C++ code bases for ~10 years.
I think the tools already exist just that people are conservative with their choices.
my $.02 on this- just because you're not diagnosed and having "just anxiety and agression", doesn't mean youre ok and might be quite opposite- it's probably for a reasons, that your conscious mind protects you from, something you dont know and have forgotten, and no simple evaluation will find this out but when you yourself "stirr up" your unconcious mind, all this started to "leak" into conscious mind and it took you by surprise as you thought of yourself as "highly experienced".

to me the cabin episode sounds like a LSD trip gone bad and no proper, experienced sitter resulting in a traumatic experience.
> This is not what is being promoted by the mindfulness/buddhism-lite industry

Every industry is corrupt. But if you are lucky and smart enough you can actually get away with something good for you.

Out of curiosity, I have even attended a course in extrasensory abilities once. Paradoxically, besides some useful self-regulation and some trance-based techniques they also taught observing your thoughts and feelings detachedly and taking them critically which has boosted my rationality and helped me so many times. And good for them, they were pretty serious about making sure people with mental issues are not allowed to participate. Sadly most of the industry don't care.

> This appears to contradict "One should meditate always"

Almost nobody can meditate intensely for long periods of time in the beginning. You just do your best to awaken from unconscious daydreaming and stay conscious as often and for as long as you comfortably can. If you try and immediately find out you actually can (although not necessarily comfortably) maintain undisturbed conscious concentration for long periods of time you should go to a doctor or a Buddhist teacher experienced in meditation techniques and things which happen to people on this way. Choosing the latter absolutely doesn't imply you have to take the religion and believe in their saints - you only really need the psychotechnical (and the philosophical maybe) guidance.
I think it's even simpler than Java being an enterprise language. Java is a language with a simple grammar and got a working reflection system early on - both facilitated creation of supporting tooling like test coverage reports embedded in the IDE. It's much easier to cover more code with tests when your IDE makes it almost effortless, and constantly reports how well you're doing. And the easier something is, the more often people do it.
Stop using print statements and start using VSCode's deBugger
Use a debugger for efficient memory management and code walkthrough
This is very true, and much like Tesla getting away with it for years (up until recently), GitHub will get away with this for a while as well. And so will the media decrying shit like "Is this the end of developers?!?"
“Your PaaS systems are now on different random IP addresses and noone can access them because legacy firewall systems don't like the cloud.”

The whole post should be printed out and pinned to the Kanban/Scrum/whatever board of every infrastructure/DevOps team, but this sentence in particular. This property of Azure (and I imagine every other cloud provider) was one of the nastier fights we had with the guys who run the on-prem firewalls.
Sounds like a good excuse for a bigger drone.
Just for the record, I wasn't saying we can't have nice things and everyone should start to live this way. Not at all. It was just an interesting data point. You do make it sound, though, like sugar is required to have a nice childhood. I don't think you're right and the conclusion that you're happy you got to do all these drugs, I mean, yeah of course you'd not want to live without if you had it. I wouldn't either because I also had it. But might an alternative history not also have been able to be nice? That's what I'm wondering about.
"possible" has a financial component. They're making a lot of things possible by reducing costs.

Several of the major technological innovations in history are a case of doing something "already possible" at a reduced cost: electric light, printing press, refrigerator...
> but I wonder if it is just "guessed" a simple password and failure to set mfa.

She say, they kept stealing her password, so it was probably that the hacker had access to her email then he was able to keep changing the OF password
To be slightly fair to the guy, it seems like he's probably in the right about the details- it sounds like Muse Score is under very strict constraints to be able to do what they're doing, and this repo is basically just allowing users to violate the constraints that Muse Score was forced to operate under in order to continue hosting copyrighted works. Which is pretty unsurprising in my view. There's quite a few people in the thread who are basically arguing "But we don't like your business model" - to which the correct answer is "Well fuck off then".

He's gone way too far in trying to pursuade the commenters in that thread. But then there's 34 hidden comments (I don't seem to be able to open), a jump from October 2020 to yesterday and suddenly he's wading in to a debate on ethics in journalism and making what are at the very least poorly considered references to getting someone deported (I don't seriously believe that someone is going to get deported for copyright infringement unless they really really go out of their way to fight it).
There's loads of document distribution alternatives, both classical (like Gopher) and modern (like Gemini). I'm not familiar with them.
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Perhaps you could start a consultancy (or get a job) where you assess (and improve) accessibility of websites?

Accessibility by itself is important but at the same time improving it often results in better SEO.
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> After all, as we are likely never going to meet in person, it would be extremely inefficient to actually simulate you, too.

If you are at the point where you can simulate a whole world, I think this ceases to be an issue.
Exactly. Seeing is not understanding, and I take from objects popping in and out of existence that the software will be happy to erase you from its reality once confidence drops below a certain threshold. It does so with vehicles as well (also stationary ones), but those are presumably a lot more solid than those 'drive through pedestrians'.
That's more than what Trump got in 2016. Still nobody compared the U.S. to Belarus.
I think that's partly parent's point: that integration between disparate cultures has mostly been (and maybe can only be) accomplished with force and bloodshed, however high minded the ideals might seem to its drivers.

And in contrast, this thread's point: that attempts to unify disparate cultures via democracy and mutual agreement, celebrating differences, have difficulties and failures when constituents decide to abandon good faith.
Consumerism paired with sensationalism. Some people take psychedelics like others consume television... To amuse themselves. Remember what Tim Leary wrote in the psychedelic experience? If you have hallucinations, you're doing something wrong. But that is getting a bit off-topic regarding the original post.
> According to the instruction I received, there have been no arahants since a few decades after the death of the Buddha.

I don't believe that is the standard view. I haven't heard it before at least. And it seems odd to me that anyone would claim this, seeing as no one knows every person who's lived in the last 3500 years.

>The industry generally claims to be secular, or at least, to not depend on a religious interpretation. If you folllow an openly-religious meditation teacher, you shouldn't hear that reassuring touchy-feely nonsense

I think you are labouring under some dogma, all due respect.
I disagree, the meat of the article isn't about software bugs, it is about the current state of academia, and specifically academic research on software.

The problem stated is that instead of being able to find widely cited or good papers, any amount of research involves trudging through hundreds of bad, off topic, outdated, unrelated, or otherwise useless papers, just to get an idea of what is being talked about in the field. And even when getting there, what you find may be completely non-practically relevant in the end.
So, you think Bezos is ignorant because he didn't answer a question he wasn't asked? Or is it that the journalist is ignorant for asking the wrong question?
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It’s rare for people to look at things from the perspective of the other side. I thinks it’s both: lacking abilities and willingness to do so.

The world would be a better place if we did that more often.
I'm no expert on the history of Iran, but no, it doesn't seem it ever was (Most countries in the region ever were or are one now).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Imperial_S...

"The reign of Reza Shah was totalitarian and dictatorial at a time when totalitarian governments and dictatorships were common in the Middle East and the world[8] and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was some years in the future."
Oh God, they should stop using stupid names like KClock.
They've always outsourced most of their stuff, to Boeing et al. Now they have a company to outsource stuff to that is 10x more efficient and will actually invent new systems.
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Pegasus is a name for their attack repertoire of the day plus whatever next stage payloads are run upon a successful compromise.
What if the wild pigs start building cars? :()
By the way... your conception of a pure function is incoherent.

Parameters ARE inputs. Results ARE outputs. Renaming them to something else is just obscuring the fact that you are still talking about a function with side-effects.

So using Python as my model of computation this is a pure function, but it does nothing:

def f(): pass

This is NOT a pure function. It has outputs.

def g(): return True

This is NOT a pure function. It mandates input.

def h(x): pass

This is NOT a pure function - it mandates input and produces output:

def j(x): return x

This is a pure function. It calculates the answer to 2+2, but doesn't tell you what it is.

def k(): 2+2

If pure functions take no input and produce no output, what is there left to analyse? What is Logic and Mathematics talking ABOUT?
Yes, most of the world being so shitty that even Amazon is one of the better employers is one of the problems back on earth that needs to be fixed. It's always a little sad to see some researcher work out a ballpark estimate for (say) giving every child on earth proper healthcare and even the pessimistic estimates are no more than 10% of what the western world spends on cosmetics alone.

That said, I don't begrudge Bezos&Branson their space race hobby. Certainly better than the "who has the biggest yacht" type of shenanigans most rich people get up to.
> In Google’s data centers, this improvement reduced TLB stalls by 6% and memory fragmentation by 26%.

Yet after Ctr+F-ing the paper for the term, I have yet to find an accurate definition of "fragmentation". Keeping in mind that fragmentation is an allocator's major enemy, it bugs me to realize that there is no universally agreed-upon formulation yet.

Does anyone more knowledgeable have a more informed opinion on the matter?
No, I notice bicyclists more because when they do reckless things because I am an attentive driver who makes sure he is not endangering others.

Bicyclists often have this view that they are above traffic laws and break them:
>he will start riding on the pavement in places that are absolutely unsuitable for that, or on hiking trails that are absolutely unsuitable for that.

In my state, cars and bikes share the road and have to follow the same laws.

There is a stop sign at the bottom of a hill near my house, I have never seen a car drive through it, plenty of bike don't stop.
I don’t think either article is talking about every component of the system, just the things that do need to be aware of one another. Marcel Weihers original article says:

> Glue is quadratic. If you have N features that interact with each other, you have O(N²) pieces of glue to get them to talk to each other.

And this one says:

> it’s “quadratic”: the glue code is proportional to the square of the number of things you need to glue

Even the most well-designed architecture will not let you only glue things pairwise, and you don’t need a very high N to run into challenges with N^2.
Brexit was a way to leave EU by country which wants this. But Hungary doesn't want to leave, they want all benefits and keep doing what they want. EU has very little power to punish Hungary. To do something serious all countries should vote for this, but Hungary and Poland have agreement on protection of each other. So EU is kind of hostage there.
If my experience with physics engines indicates anything, it’s that the speed of light is probably an arbitrary constant set to prevent weird floating point errors or accidentally passing through objects.
Fielding this with other users on public roads that have expressly not opted in to this is criminal.
(Obligatory xkcd; you know the one)
> polish government is breaking polish law, in particular the constitution

This is either not true or impossible to tell because Polish constitution was really poorly written with very many issues being delegated to lower acts. The Constitutional Tribunal gets to freely decide what is or isn't against the constitution and current Tribunal judges are favourable to the gov.

It's as if the US constitution was stitched from multiple Commerce Clauses. The SCOTUS could rewrite it on the fly (they already do to some extent).
When you have a runtime, you have proper information whether there is work being done on a given virtual thread - So in case of Loom, afaik any blocking call will turn into non-blocking auto-magically (other than FFI, but that is very rare in Java), since the JVM is free to wait on that asynchronously behind the scenes and do some other work in the meantime.
If we're to believe the author, they meditated for 10 years and attended numerous classes, seminars and retreats. Clearly they were engaging it as more than a "stress-relief tool".

The article I will take as a single data point, about one person's experiences. But comments like yours, and others in this thread, worry me far more. Collectively, they exhibit the dismissiveness, defensiveness, condescension and victim-blaming that is absolutely typical of members of religions/cults both spiritual and secular. Anyone who can describe the experiences related in this article as "desired and welcome" has lost any sense of perspective.