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> This is uncontexualized hype

And yet just a few days ago there was a thread about sudo's recent heap-overflow issue, where the top comment's first line is:

> Sudo must be the program with the largest number of buffer overflows I’ve heard about.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465707#unv_33467000
In a sense, laws around “format shifting” can make room for that to happen.

As long as someone is not “distributing” (AKA uploading to any user. AKA torrents are off the table.), then an argument can be made that the user is format shifting using the internet as the format-shifting tool.

Even though the US (and now other countries) are a bit of a nightmare for fans of copyright works, I always thought we’d end up with more tools that “read” a physical item, then download the bit-perfect copy.
And it’s still a waste of time and money.
Checksums don't provide error correction, nor are they without errors. And they cannot be - it's mathematical fact, hence my post.
If you're self hosting, why would you use github?
I was watching an interview with Tom Englund of Evergrey and they were discussing the creative process. In this context the question was around how he and his band churns out so many high quality albums. His answer was that his goal is to write one riff a day. And at the end of the year he would have 365 riffs. And from that then he could come up with ideas for at least a few songs. And once those are done, he could build an album. At the end of the conversation he said something like “in reality, if you can write one riff, you will usually write thee or four”. To me that was the big take away. For any creative process, if you can just do something, anything, then that will likely produce a multitude of new ideas. It’s the same with software. I have tried to apply this idea to my side projects, and it works. I set aside 20 minutes a day and tell myself I’ll write one line of code. Some days thats all I can do. But as Tom said, some days if I can write one, I can 3, 4, or more.
That’s the kind of thing Windows does. It systematically applies hacks to keep old applications working.
Aren’t coarrays only for single machine CPU parallelization? I‘d be surprised if you could abstract a whole network topology over it. The MPI communicator is really where it’s at when you want to drive a whole cluster (and if you’re using Fortran, you probably do).
Oblique references to IBM and their product Watson. I assume they're afraid IBM would otherwise find their comment and sue them for libel (implausible).

For those that need further explanation, HAL is the killer computer in the movie 2001, the name was picked for the movie because the letters are shifted by one from "IBM." IBM's product Watson is named after Sherlock Holmes's sidekick, Dr. Watson.

Edit: the product was named after a prominent, early CEO of IBM, not the character; Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson is what the commenter was referencing (I've thought the Watson name was a Holmes reference since it won Jeopardy).
My goodness. How can you possibly say that Ubuntu hasn't changed much from 18 -> 22? There are whole how-tos that are completely useless from those changes. All sorts of things are different. That's ridiculous.
That's really cool. Played around a bit, love it!

Full screen also looks great, I can imagine it being a screen saver.
No doubt they'll needlessly spread to code that doesn't require them - happened already with async and that is much, much simpler concept (than one of the most complex things, GATs).
Yikes, that's appalling. VDSL is an evolution of ADSL. You can get speeds of 50-78 Mbps, depending on distance to cabinet, for under £30/month. Coverage isn't universal, but it sounds better than in Canada.

It's also interesting (but disappointing!) Canada's been let down by the telecoms regulator in an entirely different way. In the UK, BT was beginning to roll out fibre, but that was cancelled in favour of privatisation in 1984. Here we are nearly four decades later, and only now is FTTP being rolled out in earnest.
"At this point, all I know is that by creating this project I’ve done something very wrong."

There's a flip side to this. People will be mean to us in life; we can't avoid it. But we can consider where they are coming from, and what is causing them to act mean.

What are they really communicating? Maybe they don't know how to cope with conflicting feelings, and are lashing out in order to normalize their thoughts. Maybe they have not yet considered the consequence of their words, or the people receiving them. Maybe they themselves have a combination of ego and the need to feel correct and use a public forum to perform this act to puff themselves up. And maybe they're just stupid and arrogant.

I spent some time with a toddler recently and her parents. Toddlers are mean!!! She told her mommy to go away, to stop talking, that she didn't like her. How cruel! But the kid didn't know what the impact of her words were. Later she was cuddling and loving on her mother, oblivious to what she had said. It's really hard for people to have a perspective outside their own, and to let that perspective lead actions, rather than acting without thinking.

So when someone is mean to you, and you don't know why, try not to take it personal. Instead, have pity on this poor soul, who is probably hurting inside, and doesn't understand that lashing out isn't an acceptable way to behave.
Sorry all. Apparently I need to put Cloudflare back on the server. Here is the achive.org version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221107120623/https://ipde.com/...

Edit: I discovered the Render.com autoscaler setting. Hopefully it's back now.
Yes, I was thinking the same. The tip about "iron ore" made me think about Brazil and Australia. But maybe Ningbo because of Bao Steel.
Interesting, I would like to know specific examples. Genuinely curious.
On one hand small actions can lead to big change.

This is one of those things that we teach small children so they can feel like they are contributing but never go back and explain to teens that we were bs’ing about. These kids then grow up with a bad model of how the world works. This dynamic is pernicious.

No amount of at home composting or whatever the latest peacock thing is will make a real dent.
Did they bundle it or abandon that idea? I don’t see it in the app
As far as I can tell this works when people search for you by domain. But what happens when you comment on somebody's post? Will they see @user@domain.com or @user@mastodon.social or whatever?

I'd really like to bring my own domain to mastodon but I'm not confident it works fully yet.
This is your second comment since last year. Out of everything on HN, what made you want to comment on this? And to call it "pathetic" out of all things?

I don't think it's pathetic. I think it's a truth that is considered impolite to discuss.

I'm not even complaining about it. I'm just noting it.
Basically, before this you couldn't have generic types in traits, like this:

trait X {
type Y<Z>;
}

You couldn't express "a thing that contains another thing" in one of those type expressions before, and also use the contained type. It's needed for Mappable, because it's an abstraction over the concept of modifying a value inside a container.

IMO the implementation that they have is a bit obtuse, but I don't know if you can fit something better in this language.
Why we’re not prepared for the next wave of biotech innovation
Activision blizzard is roughly 3.5% of the total gaming industry by revenue. with roughly 5 to 6 bil reported for 2021 in a 180bil annual industry. Microsoft is the same size. in a marget so large, and fragmented, a single company coming to represent 7% is a huge deal. especially when you then realize that the share of ownership is significantly larger when you slice.out the non English speaking sector of the industry.

also, ab is. apowerhouse in both mmo, lobby based, and mobile games, and produces a lot of new IP. and no, they are not focused on cod alone. they have wow, cod, overwatch , hearthstone, candy crush, Diablo, StarCraft, tony hawk, Spiro, and a number of other games.

the point is, this isn't Ms buying up some no named indi shop with a single good game. this is Ms taking ownership of a large secment of English based gaming revenue, and some of the most iconic gaming IP of all time.

all that being said, I want it to go through, ab's current structure and foresight is garbage and has. ahorozon of at most 1 year, and is 1000% profit driven milk the IP until it's dead. specifically for the blizzard IP, I want Ms to take it, and invest in it, because lord knows ab isn't doing that.
Bloated college administrators are a byproduct of hiring former state legislators who have enacted bills on the college's behalf.

It is a reward puppy mill scheme and a triple-dippy pension scheme ... all at taxpayers' expense.
> NEVER normalize (!!)

Why not? Shouldn't it be non-destructive?
But is there broader benefit to a legal system that enables the inventor to enforce time-limited monopolies on them?

Rust's memory management was invented without any such incentive, and the world is richer for it.
Be well.
This is fascinating, thanks for sharing. Are there more groups than just A, B and O?
Better yet: you burn the plants for energy, then sequester the conveniently high concentration CO2 from the smokestack and do with it whatever you'd think would be smart to do when burning fossiles.

About the Science article: my quick skim stumbled over the word "regenerate", which tells me it's not about some material suggested for permanently binding the carbon, but about a tool to get from smokestack-level CO2 concentrations to even higher levels?
>China

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Folks from Dongbei moved to South even as far as Sanya because of the warm among other reasons. Warmer Dongbei might attract more people back.
Well, just sports in general... I like to go and watch a local game occasionally and follow international tournaments, but it's weird the level of passion around it. What I really don't get, and never had, hardly anyone supports local teams, they're obsessed with basically, international companies named after towns.
> We mostly run Ubuntu LTS at my work and the 18.04 -> 20.04 -> 22.04 deltas have been really low on the server side

Except for the giant, buggy change in the auto-install process in 20.04:

* https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Ubuntu2004Aut...
Are you implying the main cause of grievance for journos against Musk right now is the loss of "status" of a verified badge? I believe there are many more issues with Musk that they have axes to grind than... Losing privilege to a blue badge on Twitter.
> stuff that is obvious

Stuff that is obvious cannot be patented, according to the law. The problem is the system's implementation of the law.

Software shouldn't be patentable because math isn't patentable.
Virtualized network stacks in Linux are network namespaces with a difference of not being tied to a specific "prison". So every Docker network regardless of type creates one.
But Linux is not made for long running systems, you make a image and throw it away if it's not booting anymore, it's like smartphones and ioT devices, if they stop booting throw them away, linux and it's filesystems are good enough for that ;)
I started working on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/82131 because the idea that different kernel => reshuffled userland is a stupid an a massive source of unneeded switching costs.

I am not mad at Linux, but monoliths at the 10M LoC order always need competition. Otherwise we have a major source of unchecked complexity growth with no escape.
I'm the author. It's actually kind of hard to say at this stage, and the judge suggested amicus briefing to help the Court figure out what to make of all this.
Twitter is workforce automation for that kind of behavior. Its designed to be like that.
What a pretentious response. Bad art exists, twitter showing people you don’t follow in your feed is bad software art.

Who needs blinders when the feature could just work? Follow someone; see them. Don’t follow; don’t see.
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And yet despite that transit projects in the US almost universally fail at most of these aspects. Or play into the existing status quo that is supposed to be changed.

And really these questions were already asked and explored in the design phase. By the time this has to be done all these things have already been threw many iterations.

Sometimes its better to just do a project, because you can always change a lot of things and iterate on a lot of aspects of a transit project.
Well, first of all, if the Tesla engineers are so brilliant, how come no one brought up the fact that LOC is a useless and even a bad metric?

And print out? Printing code was acceptable and common in the 80s and even all the way into the late 90s. Who prints out code nowadays? Is there even a button to do that in most IDEs? Don't know, never cared to look.

What kind of Mickey Mouse operation is this? It's like they literally pulled managers from the 1987 GE to do this "merger".
Not really. If Russia wanted to continue to sell gas to Europe it could end the war against Ukraine (or have never started it in the first place). Gas sales aren’t a high priority there. Putin doesn’t care one bit about those, and likely had the pipeline blown up as a “no way back” for those who might have wanted to negotiate behind his back.

The US blowing up NS2 for a few billion dollars worth of gas sales is beyond stupid because it risks completely ruining all of the momentum the US has in isolating Russia and having its military completely implode. If your view is that the Russians are the enemy (as the US view is) why would you stop them from making a terrible mistake or put any of that at risk? You wouldn’t.
It's the unrealised promise or illusion, at least for me. I was a huge fan of him, mostly due to SpaceX, and still follow bigger events or announcements regarding his company. But he really disappointed me with his personal opinions and management practices, multiple times, even before Twitter debacle.

On the other hand I don't have any hopes for Bezos or some Comcast or BP billionaires as an example, so they don't disappoint me much :)
I believe Ray Dallio's most recent book talks about this a bit. Essentially the idea that more developed countries have slow downs in productivity related to waste.

A year or two ago I read the book The Power Broker about a guy who was responsible for a lot of the construction in new york city in fairly corrupt ways. You get the idea in the book that they were just figuring out the earliest versions of ballooning costs and slowing projects down in those days.

In the same way private contractors benefit from the military industrial complex and are incentivized to keep it alive and even promote conflict, We have a sort of bullshit industrial complex too of consultants and other nonsense jobs that come in and make projects take longer.

It seems like there must be a way to go back to building stuff as fast as we could 100 years ago in the US.

In China they can still build that way today[0][1] in a way I find embarrassing and annoying.

Patrick Collison explores this idea some on this page[2]. I consider it to be one of the most important problems of the modern age.

How different would the world be if in 3 months SF build 19 giant skyscrapers full of apartments you would want to live in?

Some of these problems are exacerbated by the fact that even if you could do it now, capital isn't as cheap as it used to be. Which makes it even more frustrating that we went through that period without massive infrastructure updates and improvements.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWp6vSHFG4M

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6f_sayw0mM

[2] https://patrickcollison.com/fast
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It shouldn’t matter bc Twitter is supposed to have total and complete free speech now
Sure they can happen, but in general they require a much lower investment to be done, and are easy to reinvent.

Once I had an idea while sitting on the toilet, about how to use past log data to pre-emptively scale up, when the peak hour is about to come.

I had the idea just randomly sitting on the toilet for a few minutes… it was already patented.
>Supposedly if we fertilize patches of the oceans the dead algae will nicely sink to the bottom not to be release CO2 for centuries.

This is not true. Russ George is and perhaps always will be a grifter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
Alon Levy has written extensively on reasons why the MTA builds at roughly 10× the rest of the world in subway construction costs. (The short answer is that, when you have cost premiums in that ballpark, everything is going wrong to some degree). I could go into detail, but I'll focus on one particular detail to show why your following quote is wrong:

> No amount of clever design or management could possibly make the Second Avenue subway cost a reasonable amount.

Roughly half of the cost of the 2nd Avenue subway phase 2 is in the station costs. (I don't have the most recent precise cost breakdown in front of me to give you precise numbers). If you want to cut the cost down considerably, looking for any inefficiencies in station construction costs is a good place to start, then... and it turns out there are glaring inefficiencies. One of the most obvious contenders is the use of full-length mezzanines, which are unusual, unnecessary, and extremely expensive in a mined station design (as opposed to cut-and-cover, where the volume needs to be excavated anyways).

That's one design change that can give cost savings on the order of at least 10%, and it's not even particularly clever design. Ultimately, the main reason why it's so expensive is that people like you, who are completely incurious about why anything may be expensive, are in charge of these projects.
This is definitely going to turn the climate problem on its head.
@user@domain.com
Its similar to how delegation works in the Matrix Protocol.
> My understanding is that coarrays are a modern replacement for MPI

Well, yes and no. Co-arrays are a higher level abstraction, belonging to the category of Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS).

Depending on the implementation, co-arrays might very well be implemented on top of a MPI library (as there has been a huge amount of work making MPI fast over all kinds of fancy interconnect fabrics).
I rather like my [ancient] Kobo (still uses a USB cable to load books onto it)

Seems there are several newer models that will connect with wifi
> But maybe a better moral would be that shell corporations (& lawyers playing shell games with them) should be outlawed.

Shell companies have done more damage to the world than most tyrants ever could - enabling tax evasion, escaping responsibility for substandard construction (you close the company after completing contruction of a house) or for decommissioning toxic assets like exhausted mines or oil rigs. They are uaed to obscure land ownership.
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Sounds to me like all of that would be better off public or as a trade secret.
Yes, it is called eutrophication and is a huge pollution problem. The dead algae that drops to the ocean floor get eaten by bacteria and through that depletes the oxygen, resulting in hypoxic dead ocean. No fish and no plants, which in turn kills biodiversity both in and outside the water.

Even if the goal was to store CO2 and we didn't care about anything else, the method has additional problems. With nothing living in dead zones except for algae, the methane gas produced by decomposing dead algaes has a high risk of rising to the surface.
I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing. It is just what it is.

> society still thinks it is acceptable to demonise men who have emotions.

"Still". As if that will change someday. It will not.

Women are inherently valuable because they can bare children. Men have no inherent value so they must prove their value. A man sobbing over mean comments is signalling that he is of low value.
I'm sure there's information that you appreciate being at your fingertips that wasn't there before. I think we've taken for granted really how easy it is now to access information, and how annoying/difficult it used to be, and the consequences of that, many of which are clearly positive. It's just now we're at the stage where we are starting to be a bit more critical instead of jubilant about it.
Sure there is.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1056798
I can't speak for the person you're asking, but BSD is worlds easier than using Linux.

A how-to for FreeBSD can be used with NetBSD with minimal changes. Why? Because the BSDs don't expend effort to deliberately try to differentiate themselves from each other. They're consistent and don't change gratuitously.

Try writing a how-to that has even the slightest consistency between the common Linux distros - Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch. Heck - many how-tos written for Ubuntu 18 can't be used with newer Ubuntu! It's a mess.
So do “50cc” mopeds.
A quick glance at Coarray Fortran [0] shows that Coarray library is built on top of MPI instead of replacing it.

MPI and InfiniBand are irreplaceable technologies for HPC clusters as of today, both in terms of speed and latency. Lastly IB is not a connectivity layer. It's a HBA which carries information from memory space of one application to another. So it's properly "Magick" in terms of programming and research.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coarray_Fortran
I think it’s fundamentally interesting that out of all the scientifically competent but morally bankrupt regimes in the last 100 years, none have (publically) created weaponized human super-thinkers by either selective breeding with an artificially short generation time, genetic modification for large brains, or even chemical / surgical modifications in utero. I strongly suspect most have tried some or all of these techniques- especially the CIA and soviet regimes had the time, the money, and the sociopathic tendencies
You might also be interested in https://github.com/bignimbus/game-of-life-n
The freeware screenwriting program trelby had some articles that led to one recommending the use of courier prime. I use it when I am working on manuscript copy, it could probably do okay for programming as well.

https://www.1001fonts.com/courier-prime-font.html
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I remember once someone mentioned in comments here a science fiction book where a whole library was digitised by pumping all the books into a massive shredder, blowing the shreds through a pipe with cameras all over the walls, then stitching it electronically. Can't remember what the book was...