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For tech ppl, linear has so many pain points (ofc heavily depends on your workflow style) I cry in agony every night.

- email notification are batched unless it's an urgent issue. This is such bollocks, I don't know how they get away with this. Gh issues and jira just work. Workaround: use their Webhook and do it yourself. Makes me so angry.

- can't search comments WTF

- I'm a "tabber", but linears super-fancy-SPA bootstrapping is way behind loading a single issue page especially compared to github but also jira

- github has no wysiwyg and linear ONLY has it, but it has so many subtle bugs, especially with lists. But I'm spoiled with notion. Has its own set of problems, but pure editing is great

Oh boi I could go on.

But I agree, for cross teams with non-devs it works great.
I'd prefer a capable phone, but with "lockdown features" designed for addictive personalities. I use various tools for web addiction on my computer (for instance LeechBlock, that has rules that allow me to access certain sites for only certain periods). I even have a physical lockbox with a timer for certain real-world substances that I enjoy and benefit from, but I don't benefit from them always being available and tempting me. (hint: things that used to be illegal but aren't anymore, at least not in California)

This sort of solution, though, takes it way too far. I mean, I might need to call an Uber. I am not addicted to the Uber app. But I want it when I want it. I want to have maps/driving directions available when I want them. There are so many things I use occasionally on my phone that I'd like to decide whether or not they are positive or problematic, rather than the manufacturer to decide that for me. In other words, they throw out the baby with the bathwater.
You get used to the syntax, and it's very consistent for most things (some addon TikZ libraries seem to do their own thing though).
> why anyone would question the value of it.

I once heard an account, the gist of which was, the man who first wrote the [authoritative] book on play behavior in different animals was unable to get tenure.

This was in the context of noting that play in general had been undervalued as a subject.
Exactly! There are numerous applications where SQLite is replacing an ad hoc file-based solution, with nebulous at best durability and atomicity, let alone scalability. Like an application that would otherwise persist state in XML/JSON/protobuf and have to manage the challenges of regularly persisting and reading state; challenges with become unwieldly as the data size grows.

This is not a challenge commonly faced on on the enterprise server side, hence why many of us cannot imagine a use case for SQLite. Our workloads involve multiple readers/writers for both scaling and availability. An RDBMS cluster is the obvious choice.

But for mobile/embedded, all the data is local to a single device and commonly also a single process. In this case, an RDBMS would add unnecessary overhead. Additionally, there's desktop software that has to work with relatively large datasets, which require reliable persistence and efficient searching/reading. Adding an RDBMS would complicate installation and support.

Further, researchers and data analysts benefit from SQLite databases when the data is too large to hold in memory, yet not large enough to warrant a proper data warehouse. Even ~100 MB datasets can benefit from SQLite if you're performing a lot of random writes/reads or want to execute complex queries. There are other alternatives such as Apache Arrow, but SQLite is tried and tested option. It can be populated and queried similar to SQL-based data warehouses, and it also includes secondary indexes, an efficient query engine, and fast random writes with durability and atomic transactions.

There's a reason why SQLite can reputably claim to be the "Most Widely Deployed and Used Database Engine" with an estimated one trillion SQL database in use. [0]

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
Doesn’t matter. The best way to guarantee that the final 28% probably won’t get vaccinated is to mandate it. The best way to get the final 28% vaccinated is to fully FDA approve it, get Fauci and Biden to ease up on the vax shaming and then simply expect that 10-15% still won’t do it. You write them off and let the chips fall.

It’s remarkable to me that our government hasn’t figured out that you don’t get people who are already distrustful of the government to magically become trustful of the government by doing the same shit over and over that caused the distrust.
sometimes I wonder how much green/blue is/was lost in media due to greenscreen/bluescreen. Anyone has any idea about this?
Who are some good math youtubers out there?
Your dad would spend hundreds of dollars on a TV set every year and then throw it in the trash after a couple of weeks???

That sounds insane.
But dumb phones don't toggle.

If you want those apps to never be on your phone, you don't have to mess with a bunch of sliders to switch modes.
And more than 5 million around the world who died trying to get it?
I'm an avid Jupyter user. In my view it doesn't matter. The basic notebook concept is the same in both cases. Once you get more experienced with Python and notebooks, then you can try both and form an opinion of which one you prefer. I still prefer notebooks because I get distracted by extra "stuff" on the screen.

I haven't found a case where I have to commit to one or the other. My notebooks that work in one environment, tend to work in the other.
This seems like a vast right wing conspiracy to me.
I had to have a cosigner for all of my student loans. If I disappeared off to a foreign country I bet my parents would be forced to pay in my absence
I disagree with this. Removing a source of ongoing temptation is a great practical way to avoid that temptation.

For example I find it much easier to avoid drinking when I don’t have alcohol in the house.
Can we please ban Twitter threads like this. For one they are incredibly hard to read. And secondly you need an account to read them if they are longer then a few tweets. Which this one is. Essentially making the content inaccessible.
> Non-google app stores cannot automatically update aps,

They can in Android 12.

> side-loading is hidden in menus behind scary warnings.

The warnings are minimal.

-- 1) Open Chrome.

-- 2) Find and Download APK. https://i.imgur.com/ZFZb1uE.png

-- 3) Accept warning and Open APK.

-- 4) Go to settings. (This only has to be done once) https://i.imgur.com/R8FzTzP.png

-- 5) Toggle Install Unknown Apps for Chrome. (This only has to be done once) https://i.imgur.com/K0ADO2q.png

-- 6) Click back (This only has to be done once)

-- 7) Click install. https://i.imgur.com/xVSndex.png

-- Done. https://i.imgur.com/fyasTK9.png

Once you do this for the first time, the process reduces down to 4 steps each time after: Open Chrome, Download APK, Open APK, Click Install. Done.

The ZOMG SKERRRY WARNINGS only show up once when you toggle the permission for that app and if you look at the screenshot, it's a reasonable disclaimer.

We have plenty of things to bash on Google here for... the sideloading process, however, is not one of them.

> chrome de facto sets web standards,

Chrome became the most popular browser simply because it is better.

If Mozilla could get their shit together, they could potentially reclaim their number one spot... but Firefox lost that spot multiple times. Not because of subterfuge, but because they continually drop the ball.

Chrome didn't exist in a vacuum and it didn't have the advantage of having a host operating system that had it installed from the start. There's a reason it's the primary engine now. It actually works better.

If that bothers you, use Firefox or De-Googled Chromium. Or if you really hate yourself... Safari.
The hand-drawn version feels less "mechanical" to me. It's hard to explain, but it's like watching an anime where the artists switch from 2d to 3d animation for complex or repetitive scenes in a way that feels cheap or jarring.
The "toff MP" said it couldn't happen in the mature democracies of the US or UK and the author counters that by listing example of it not happening in a mature democracy (Trump) and happening in immature democracies (every other case). This is attempting to mislead the reader by presenting facts in a way that they sound like they mean the opposite of what they really mean.
I somewhat disagree with this.

I've tried to organize notes and documents schema-first several times, and it's never worked. For instance, consider a system of notes where each note has tags: I write a note, come up with some tags for it, then I write a second similar note and end up thinking "hang on, I feel like I chose the wrong tags for the first one." So I have to come up with new tags for both.

Either I'm constantly revising how I've tagged older notes, or I have to think so hard about how I'm going to tag each new note before I write it that I never want to write any notes. Before I write anything, I need to think up a set of tags which are specific enough to be useful but general enough to re-use.

Instead, these days, I use Logseq [1], and I'm really liking it. In Logseq, everything is bullet lists. If you have a new note to write, you just append it to your root list. If two notes feel like they belong together, indent them under a parent. If any list starts becoming too bloated, you can move a subtree to a new page.

A list like

Main List
- Entry 1
- Entry 2
- Entry 3

becomes

Main List
- Entry 1
- Category A
- Entry 2
- Entry 3

which becomes

Main List
- Entry 1
- <hyperlink to "Category A">

Category A
- Entry 2
- Entry 3

This way, the schema grows organically over time, from the bottom up. Instead of having to think up a system of classification before I start writing, I just write, and then classify later as information accrues.

Logseq has tags and block embeds and many other features too, but the core nested list model is what has really attracted me to it. I'm sure it's not the only note app that works along these lines (I'm always open to suggestions), but it's open-source and it works quite nicely.

[1]: https://logseq.com/
This is very relevant to the discussion of Apple's CSAM scanning. I'm convinced that this development has been precipitated by a very visible decline in America's economic, and social position as a world leader. I'm convinced that Apple's upper management figure the minimal blowback they're experiencing for this privacy invading technology in the west is worth the expansion of their technology into a much more totalitarian Chinese market.
Or they're using a different codec which is not supported by Firefox.
I don't think anyone expects them to fly a Blackhawk, but armored ground vehicles are very likely
That's fine, they should get shut out of public life then. That's what fully internalizing the externalities looks like.
Intel is nowhere close to the doldrums of yesteryear's AMD. It continues to command the lion's share of the x86 market, and hasn't needed to sell off assets in order to remain afloat. In fact, Intel's business has never been better. The AMD-favoring narrative that the firms have flip-flopped is not backed up by market share research, nor corroborated by quarterly filings.
Huge improvement to IPC and Energy efficiency. It is possibly the perfect CPU core for 90% of x86 computing usage. To me it was the most important announcement from Intel Architecture Day. So I was surprised and sad how little attention it was given and media doesn't seems care much.

Assuming those numbers were done with 4MB L2 Cache and not the 2MB version. And Depending on which Skylake Core variant they were comparing against, a Quad Core Gracemont is anywhere from 8mm2 to 13mm2. For comparison an ARM Quad Core N1 on TSMC 7nm is about 5.6mm2. Both inclusive of L2 Cache.

I actually want to see a 64 or even a 128 Core version to be used on Server. Or a cheap $10 x86 SoC for NAS and other applications.
I don't put a hard cap on screen time with my 2 year old, and he spends a ton of time playing by himself. Watching him do the pretend play thing is pretty fascinating, to be honest.

I'm assuming you don't have kids and only have limited interaction with kids in other social context. If we have friends over or something we try to put something on TV to keep the toddler occupied so we can have a discussion, but that's far from the norm. He spends most of the time each day playing with his toys, pretend playing, running around, etc. etc. - and again, I work from home and I'm not strict about limiting his TV time, he chooses to do other stuff the majority of the day.
I see it more like "don't go to bars" which is pretty good advice.
Yes, like how Kodak invented a digital camera only to later be done in by it.
The problem is what you consider 'talent' to be. 18-25 valley girls are not representative of the actual entertainment industry. Nor are they relevant.
>I'm unconvinced "putting your mind to it" is as simple as it's made out to be.

Back when I was in university, I decided to simply "put my mind to it" and went from 100kg->65kg in one year. That weight stayed off for the better part of half a decade.

"Simply" doing the same thing now, though, with all of the competing priorities I have (young child, growing business, burned out wife and a constantly shifting set of rules and uncertainty with the pandemic), is a different story. I think men especially are hesitant to come to terms with this because it means admitting weakness.

Thanks for creating this product, Rich. I really wish you success.
There’s demonstrated effectiveness in doing lockdown (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32495067/), although more recent data suggests a more moderate impact. But factually speaking we know that lockdowns contribute to a reduction in the rate of infection.
>Because they want to watch television on low volume so they don’t wake the baby or partner, and turn the transcript on.

Is calling subtitles "the transcript" a regional variation I've never heard before, or are you just stretching things to make a point?
> If 79% of people are vaccinated, then if hypothetically 79% of the hospitalized people were vaccinated, it would mean the vaccine had absolutely 0% effectiveness.

Incorrect. The vaccinations are targeted at the most vulnerable not distributed uniformly so this is not exactly right.
> Later, it was reduced to a more narrow role as a server and high-end desktop processor and was used in supercomputers like ASCI Red, the first computer to reach the trillion floating point operations per second (teraFLOPS) performance mark.

Amazing. RTX 3090 has peak fp32 performance of 35 TFLOPS.
:) Alas, fewer now that it's been banished from the front page.
The ultra power saving mode on my old Samsung Galaxy S7 did something similar. You put it in ultra power saving mode and it turns everything to black and white and only gives you access to a few number of apps that you select. I found it a very handy feature while travelling but ended up keeping my phone in that mode for the majority of its life after I discovered it. I wish my iPhone had a similar feature.
And at the time of the Phenom X4 launch, AMD was mocking Intel for not putting all cores on one die. Seems the technically superior solution wobbles depending on who's doing it.
It's political, or at least bordering on it, and therefore not a good candidate for an HN article.
> Does you startup talk to a server on the Internet and need a handshake etc. that takes a while to complete? Cool. But not IO bound.

Do the kids these days really not consider network traffic to be IO? Is this some artifact of cloud computer where everything is the computer and IO ~= storage?
I kind of prefer the blender scene
How about lowering taxes and giving that money back to people?
We used to do this at work. Then someone bumped the date in every file. I can point to PRs that copypasta'd old dates in from people who copied the notice from deeply ancient source files and claimed a copyright date ages in the past. Or files that were updated and nobody bothered to bump the date.

As a result I ripped out all the dates, with the blessing of our legal department, because they were next to useless. We've got a git history and while the dates there aren't perfectly tamper and error free, they're vastly better than all the nonsense we had our headers.

Pretty sure these dates are a software development legal cargo cult and would encourage anyone who disagrees with me to actually sit down with their legal council and go over the issues and publish a nice medium article if you think I'm wrong. And make sure to spell out issues like this one which opposing council would be sure to use where the date bumping on /bin/true is a clear violation of policy. At best it seems legally useless and at worst you've got a policy that opposing council can probably slam dunk prove that you are not following.
EV1 is cool, thanks for sharing that. I found this in-depth review of the car on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLknNrrL6QU
No home lab to report, but this is a chance to recommend for:

Invest in uniform, stackable storage boxes. This can pay off over apartment and house moves, and decades.
In 2001 Linspire had a huge software library you could install from with a single click right from Click N Run (a pretty app store with the app icon, name, description, storage required and user reviews.).

Firefox worked, as did Flash (hello NewGrounds!), Java (RuneScape), you could do a ton and be nigh invulnerable to all the malware on the internet of the early 2000s.
IIRC they become less efficient at higher temperatures, as the thermal-induced noise increases (might be as part of sub-threshold leakage; I don't remember the details).

There are considerable efficiency gains from running silicon CMOS at LN2 temperatures instead of room temperature, but the benefits fall apart once you realize you'll have to heat-pump the electrical consumption from 77K to room temperature. Main benefits would be being able to run them faster, and a good part of the optimization would need lower dopant concentrations in the transistor channels to properly take advantage of the low temperature, which unfortunately rules out common shared-wafer prototyping runs (so testing this IRL isn't really accessible).
It's a human issue that technology can exploit to your detriment, or it can help with.

Here is an example from my life. I enjoy cannabis. I love the creative mode I get into when I use it, I love how periodic use can allow me to reexamine things from a different perspective, and so on. Great stuff. (and yes, it is legal here and sold in about 4 stores within a ten minute walk)

What I don't like is how, if I have it sitting around my house, I am tempted to use it when I need to get work done, and it will get in the way of that and cause me to waste time. I would become an unproductive stoner if it was always around.

Enter technology. I bought a lockbox with a timer. Pull out a little bit, then lock it up for 4-5 days. Works perfectly for me.

Some people could say "why not just learn some discipline?" (easier said than done) Others will say "if you have an addiction, just don't buy the stuff."

I say, why can't I have the best of both?

Same goes for things like phone and web addiction. Technology can help. I don't like this solution (too all-or-nothing.... it's like the "just don't buy the stuff" solution), but I do like the idea of technology helping with what is otherwise a human issue.
Is there an accepted definition of a homelab? Will my Raspberry Pi 4 running TiddlyWiki and a few custom scripts count ? :)
What about an Intel NUC that is running a Plex Server and a blog ?
I am very skeptical about this. I remember enough from my own childhood to know that a request "Don't throw sand at Tommy" would be met with "OK, that make sense, Tommy probably does not want to have sand thrown at him" kind of reaction, while my reaction to "keep the sand on the ground" would immediately be "why? what if I want to play with it, build a sand castle from it, ...".
Yes, but kids are a pretty big reason to have a car. A few years ago I thought about getting rid of a car and I realized that the kids made it pretty hard.
I use my gaming computer for my linux homelab. Nothing fancy but KVM + FreeIPA + BIND + Foreman for launching and maintaining bunch of servers.
One major reason for why not, I would say that water and electricity are essential services too (esp given that free internet is useless if you dont have electricity access), but they aren’t free yet.

So before we jump onto thinking about making internet free (if that was ever even a plan), I think it would make sense to make water+electricity free first.
I feel like I should probably admit that I am just generally a fan of functional programming and I do think there are big benefits to it, most of the time (of course, some algorithms are just more elegant with loops and mutation). But my day job is writing services with Elixir, so ultimately complaining about generics in Go is a little rich coming from me.

At the end of the day, whatever gets the product built is what matters. I just fail to see how generics could be a hindrance.
The article used simplified explanations and analogies, such as

> Tick, tick, tick. The rhythm of clocks is universal. But how exactly alike are those ticks?

> [...] Precision has to do not with delineating the perfect second but rather with creating extremely regular ticks, or oscillations. Imagine a game of darts. Atomic clocks are able to land all their darts, or oscillations, broadly around the bull's-eye so that the average position is right on target, even though any given dart might be a centimeter or two away from dead center. Luiten's device doesn't aim for the bull's-eye: instead, it is able to land all its darts at exactly the same point on the dartboard. In other words, each tick is really, really, really just like another.

But didn't even once mention the technical term for that in the entire article, making it more difficult to see what the author is talking about for people with an engineering background.

This is simply known as jitter, or phase noise.

It's especially funny given that the IEEE Spectrum's audience is engineering-minded readers.
...and what would they do if they caught up with it?
Yes, but we’re they making any money on the Volt?
I assure You from racing r/c cars for years that an electric motor will also generate lots of heat.
When did a "cheap TV" cost hundreds of dollars? Seems more likely it was something closer to an 80 dollar thrift store TV that returned to the thrift store in January.
Interesting Apple Time Line
Interesting Apple Time Line

1. Pegasus NSO software / revealed Apple iphones exploited through major security flaw in iMessage. Governments pay to have full access to phone text, photos, audio and more.

2. Apple released 14.7 l, includes security fixes of known exploits … but does not fix security hole used by pegasus

3. Apple introduced plans to locally scan files for CSAM. Promises not to scan things other than photos and search terms.

4. Apple releases 14.71 more security fixes. However does not patch the iMessage flaw still in use by Pegasus.

Almost as if Apple is getting back door access ready for governments prior to patching known major security flaw in iMessage affecting hundred of thousands (perhaps millions) iPhones. Security flaw that essentially openly exploits iMessage and breaks any local device encryption.
Trying to get $100 USD an hour for contract work in local companies is like pulling teeth. I've yet to manage it and will probably just sop bothering with any company based here.

I could get a lot of teeth pulled privately for $300,000 USD a year.

EDIT: Actually in NZ you have to get that done privately anyway
Somewhat off topic, what I find curious is that gangs have not yet started really making use of drones. I've heard of them being used to drop drugs and phones into prisons, but not much else. Some of the higher end hobby drones can fly just as high as general aviation aircraft and really fast and carry a lot of weight. Or perhaps I have missed the stories?