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Where have I justified war crimes, broski?

How would rioting benefit? So far it has only played right into their hands.

Again; Where have I claimed moral authority?

I have listed various nations not to compare them and declare one to be better than others "because of muh morals". I was merely pointing out how war crimes are commited by all nations, and hinting at the fact that war in itself is a crime, only possible by the extortion of the populace. Saying Americans are "muh evil", is guilt by association, and does not identify the root cause. How effective has it been to get Americans to effect change by calling them evil? Otherizing whole swaths of the world population based on the actions of their local slave masters, is not going to ingrain trust in your judgment, instead is more likely to have them reject and ignore you as some radical blowhard.

Also, you are the one who has mentioned Russia, not me. You and I both know the Motherland is the only nation where the people truely pay their taxes voluntarily, government actually works to support the people and not some corporations, war is a myth, and milk and honey flows. I would never speak up against the Motherland, Tovarisch.
Link: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_...
Main virtue of Arch. They don’t patch. Upstream documentation will apply as is.

I think Arch generally got its philosophy right. It’s pretty much the minimal set of tools to get an easy to update binary distribution. They don’t touch what they don’t have to.
> Example: the thousands of fraudulent XRD spectra of made-up compounds.

Interesting, didn't hear about this case before. Can you provide a link?
> Many of the TradFi HFT firms were in support of FTX's proposal.

I read all the quotes. None appear to be Tradfi HFT firms. They instead appear to be a variety of VCs and individuals FTX paid money to or who had a crypto interest.

For example the Fidelity quote is not “Fidelity, the firm”. It is from “ Fidelity Digital Assets President Tom Jessop”
Agreed, but still: those in charge did something to fight the crises in the past whereas today those in charge in the best case sit on their hands and do nothing, or in the worst case actively make things worse (e.g. Bolsonaro permitting farmers to blaze away the Amazon rainforest) - and those in power to stop the latter also don't do anything.

Where are, for example, sanctions against Brazilian products like beef that are made on razed rainforest lands? Where are actually impactful sanctions against China? Where are deliveries of MBTs to Ukraine to help drive out Russia? Where are sanctions against Qatar for bribing FIFA and letting thousands of people die in building the WC stadiums? Where is material support for the protesters in Iran fighting against a murderous regime?
Things that have to do with code, but not product, that uniquely qualify your existence are your 6 figure ideas. Examples:

* Architecture - Most people writing code cannot plan, write, or envision an original solution to something wildly ambitious. This takes practice and with enough practice it gets comfortable and easy, but most people writing code will never get to that point. A mastery of architecture is possibly the only way to produce a superior product compared to the competition provided that business requirements remain unchanged.

* Performance - Astonishingly most people never measure anything unless they are forced to. Learning to measure things (everything) is a cognitive skill and the result is the difference between a 2 hour work day and an 8 hour work day. Measuring things is also the only way to write fast software, because everything else is guessing (and probably guessing wrong by several orders of magnitude). At the end of the day performance is not about how fast something this, but how much faster it is than something else.

* Writing, especially bridging the gap between technical writing and narrative writing for common people.
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Google Maps Android also supports offline maps downloading of selected regions. However the download is only valid for a year.
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Linguistically it’s easy to see why people would blur the line from cables that did guide something.

People use cables or ropes to guide long poles or similar structures into position and then tie them down for stability. Cranes of are of course easier, but not always available such as when replacing a sailing ships mast at sea.

Guy wires are often used similarly if for example wind loads are an issue during construction their tension need to be adjusted appropriately.
> Conversely, by choosing the axes differently, Olympic gold medal winners become ordinary people.

See Michael Jordan trying baseball or every programmer who thinks they know everything about everything else because they know programming. One of my favorites is when an athletic guy comes into Jiu-Jitsu the first time and gets submitted over and over by one of the kids or women.
Quite fond of buggit :)
++1

I believe we should be humbled by how deep the "elite" of some older civilizations may have understood "themselves" and "the human condition". We need to see through all that fossilized blinkered strata, and not just throw it all away.

We are so proud of our "information machines" and "neurocognitive psychology" advances. Simple things like "memory" still completely elude us today.

You will still have a "tunnel vision" (="fooled again for another thousand years") even if your tunnel (=technology) is grandiose and your vision is precise (=science).
It's possible to downgrade packages though

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/downgrading_packages
I already assumed this was the case to begin with, so I sold my soul even before it was up for auction.
> If I understand correctly, you're saying Erlang/Elixir code would be easier to understand and work with if functions that did I/O or message passing etc. were labeled as such, via type info.

No, not quite. Pure functional programming is a specific style or paradigm. It's about writing referential transparent expressions only. Tagging something is "impure" is absolutely not the same, even though doing so and/or separating pure and impure functions is a good first step on the way to pure functional programming.

> Who knows though. Maybe we'll see interesting things in Gleam in the future :)

Would be nice and might make me switch ecosystems. As of now, there don't seem to be concrete plans:

> Yes, Gleam is an impure functional language like OCaml or Erlang. Impure actions like reading to files and printing to the console is possible without special handling.
> We may later introduce an effects system for identifying and tracking any impure code in a Gleam application, though this is still an area of research.
No indication of whether those are autopilot or FSD, or whether the Tesla was at fault.

Musk used to state no FSD deaths during quarterly conference calls, I think he's stopped so there probably has been some.

I don't expect FSD to be 100% perfect, but I want it to be about 10X safer than humans. Any less safe leaves too many unknowns. Any more safe means we waited too long to enable it for unnecessary deaths.

-- Tesla owner without FSD.
Nothing, you're free to do it.
Wow thanks for this suggestion. Reminds me why I love HN :)
> These people were swastika waving full blown white nationalists.

There are videos of it available for anyone who wants to fact check the claim you're making here. Watched a bunch, can't find a swastika anywhere
The main problem seems to be getting to the focal point, which is 500+ AUs from the Earth.
As I developer I solved my issues with arch using the latest dev tools in arch and running the code in a docker container. That way I also solve all developers issues with dependencies as everybody runs the same docker container with the same libraries.
Well, the lack of stable energy and power sources would indeed be detrimental to software development.

But it would be so for a lot of other things we modern humans take for granted.

We are underestimating the impact of peace on global prosperity. When there is no peace, there is no trade. If there's no trade, there is not enough energy. No energy = no power.

And modern society simply can't exist without power.
Before that we had ticgit but it stopped being developed
It has a long way to go for sure. But remember that these channels focus on the hard stuff (narrow unmarked roads, unprotected left turns, etc). Also maybe I wasn't clear, but by successful I mean that your average Tesla owner will use it in their every day, and will be able to handle their daily commute fully. But they'll still be behind the steering wheel. I don't expect that in 3 years you'll be able to sleep while it drives.

Here's something more resembling an average drive from that same channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_1NOiFKukg
Decentralisation is the thing. But most people don't care about that, or even really understand what it means.

If people don't even care about the privacy of their personal data, they're already two layers away from caring about decentralisation.
Sorry, I should have said collectively. 200 devs are making collectively $1.6M per month (most doing < $5k/mo)
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1. Once I got the hang of the functional programming paradigm it suddenly felt like a huge weight off my shoulders. I love never thinking about objects and the OO approach.

2. Concurrency is built in so thoroughly that there is an entire framework called OTP that provides powerful tools and supervisor processes and so forth to really take concurrency to the next level.

3. Once I got the hang of OTP, similar to when I got the hang of functional programming, it felt like a huge weight off my shoulders again. OTP makes concurrency so easy and lightweight that you think nothing of spinning up three dozen processes just to handle some trivial calculation or data transformation -- processes are like objects that are actually alive and useful and doing things, and OTP is like an orchestrator.

It just feels to me like everything is clearer, simpler, and more robust when I use Elixir and the BEAM/OTP ecosystem.

Also, writing a web application in Elixir means writing a program that you then fire up and which stays up until you bring it down or it crashes for some reason. In Rails on the other hand, you write a script that is fired up every time an http request arrives, builds it's entire context for everything, handles the request, and then dies split second later, only to start the whole process over again a split second after that. There is a certain simplicity in only firing things up once and then just keeping your context alive in perpetuity.
The threat is not that the cache contains builds of untrusted code but that it contains builds that do not match the code that they are associated with.
How many jobs have you worked in the It field ? Were they mostly in management? I ask because I disagree
You have golden handcuffs :).

As long as you're not unhappy with your day job, that's great. If you are unhappy, then you have a passion project/domain that you already have good progress in.

It's easy to give advice, so I'll give some. Make a 6 month plan toward quitting your day job (reducing financial burdens, winding down unnecessary expenses, generally preparing for no income). Make some potential plans for how you might fill your days with regard to your audio work. If you don't do this step, you may find yourself feeling lost or aimless and consequently not as happy as you would have expected.

But here's the best part, I think: start using some of your free time to go to conferences and shows where audio tech is a feature. Show some of your stuff, or at least talk to others about it. Where this could lead is vast and somewhat unpredictable, but it might be a lot of fun and it likely could lead to something solid.

Meanwhile, focus on one or two of your projects and try to get them polished enough to setup a storefront and promote (assuming you're not already doing this).

Maybe it never reaches your current job income, but it might get close enough that you decide it was worth it. And if not, there will always be more jobs waiting.
I like the style - reminds me of Coke Studios. Not sure how to leave the starting area though.
> Learn basic Bash

In a way, true, but if you want to work in the corporate world, should be "learn ksh". Very little difference between them, and will force you to write portable scripts. Using bashisms will make things a bit harder for you.

Most proprietary software companies like to buy uses ksh. I support a few of them now where I work, all uses ksh.
If the word is always going to be a single word, I would clarify that with some examples in the tutorial
A trick I should mention - when setting up a new machine, copy the .zsh-history file, then your brain gets ported to the new machine as well :)
What's the website? I can only think of CantoDict.
For me writing by hand helps for remembering a very specific type of knowledge. If I need to remember random facts with not much cohesion between them, it helps to write them down. I feel I create a visual memory of these facts. Almost like "oh yes, I remember writing that down near the left bottom of the page". But for any type of knowledge that's more about understanding than pure remembering, I learn better without writing by hand.
> Speaking of important distinctions, concurrency isn't a property of a language, but rather a property of a runtime.

But the way of how you can and will describe how the runtime should execute code in a concurrent way is highly dependant on the language. Compare Assembly and Go or Rust or Erlang. Completely differnt worlds, don't you think so?

> Incidentally that's the root of the misconception that pure functional languages are easier to reason about.

It's not a misconception. People are different, but at least I can say after many years of experience in both worlds that pure functional programming is much much more productive than any kind of other approach that I have tried when it comes to dealing with concurrency, parallelism and effects.
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Hacker George Hotz signs on for 12 weeks at Twitter
The idea of “putting information in people's hands” was seen as a net good due to the pattern starting from the printing press in the west. However the source of information was still controlled by the elites. This mostly creates problems but in the case of the sciences, it was beneficial. Then we created a medium where even the source was a free-for-all and the pattern just collapsed. The lowest energy state of the system hinges on inherent biases and not on the Truth with a capital T.
I hear what you are saying, but the stress and how a given individual handles it is not a small factor. In fact, I am slowly starting to discover, it appears to be one of the bigger ones.

Running your own business is stressful. It requires a level of organization apart from the skills you need to make a viable and successful product. It is not a common combination.

I guess I would not automatically equate "keeping head up high" = running your own business. I assure you even when you run your own business, you have people to answer to.
What distinction are you drawing between my “independent political spending” and Wikipedia’s “independent expenditures for political campaigns”?

Corporations and other associations shouldn’t be allowed to donate any money for political ads or political causes.

Corporations like the Sierra Club? Why not?
The first part of the name "Socrates" (Σωκράτης) comes from "sos" (σῶς), meaning "whole," not from "sophos" (σοφός), meaning "wise."

You'll note that "Socrates" and "sophos" have different vowel sounds (omicron vs. omega), and that the accented syllable in "sophos" is missing from "Socrates."

The "-crates" suffix indeed derives from the word for "power," but it's common in ancient Greek names: Philocrates, Hippocrates, Crates of Thebes, etc.
Even more confusing and a regular cause of annoyance for me that's been ongoing for a while now is there's like a knockoff version of Google Maps built into Google search that it'll kick you into if you click a map from search results. e.g. you type "gyms near me" and it shows you a map in the search results, and you click it to expand. It's still at the google.com/search domain and while you can zoom and pan around, there doesn't seem to be a way to arbitrarily jump into street view wherever you want, which I frequently want to do.

I'm constantly ending up in this view, fighting with it before remembering I need to go to real Google Maps and do my search again.
A lot of people make the argument that the value proposition for crypto is backed by the low barrier of entry and the ability to perform "private" transactions.

On the contrary, I'd argue the true value of cryptocurrencies lies in the extremely transparent and publicly auditable nature of the blockchain.

Even a lot of the recent scams and rugpulls fall apart with some basic blockchain analysis.

In the current environment a lack of regulation leads to lots of scams and sketchy business, but these aren't fundamental problems with the technology.

The fundamental problem is that most of these cryptoassets are backed by sunk costs, dreams, and hype. Ethereum makes a good stab at solving this problem by supplying real-world utility to the underlying coin, but unfortunately most of this demand is still driven by scams and speculation.

I don't believe any cryptocurrency will be able to achieve real underlying value until one or more successful countries require it to pay taxes. (The dream of increasingly privatizing the world until the entire financial system is 100% backed by the word of random business owners is downright frightening to me so I hope the huddled masses keep some independent voice in the matter.)

There seems little reason why this eventual country should legitimize an existing cryptoasset, though, since spinning up their own will be just as easy.

As sovereign-backed crypto-currencies spread I expect KYC regulations to catch up fast so while it will still be possible to spin up your own coins and run your funds through shady mixers, eventually it will become harder and harder to operate without a clean wallet.

In this future world of government-managed crypto I expect the existing unbacked cryptoassets to eventually fall to zero or thereabouts. This is why I am not financially invested in bitcoin et al, but still very bullish on the technology.
This reminds me of how Google integrated Maps into Calendar as a sidebar a while ago, a move that I absolutely hated. And instead of providing a preference setting to disable it, you have to “hide” the sidebar in a non-intuitive way [0]. I had to search to figure it out.

0: https://www.howtogeek.com/695504/how-to-stop-google-calendar...
Show HN: I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio
probably you installed something manually at some point, otherwise pacman does nothing wrong. Rarely you have to touch something manually because a mayor upgrade, but I think it has been like 4-6 times in 20 years for me.

If you want to install something manually in arch it is better to create a package first (if it is not already in aur). That way pacman can check for corruptions before installing anything
> Every bakery and independent pizza shop has point-of-sale software now, but how many have back-end software that reads the sales figures and can tell them to order [sugar, flour, cheese] before they run out?

Huh, I basically just spent my entire week working on this for our bakery (and the last 6 months on other software and systems like recipe management, team messaging, online sales, social marketing and more). We're using Odoo which has a lot of the pieces already there, I need need to write a few custom modules to link them up and make them bakery specific.

While I've been doing this, I've been thinking about how most small businesses couldn't do this. Partly technical know-how. But on a deeper level, they wouldn't even think about it, because a lot of people who run small businesses like bakeries are not technical and don't want to be and they can't afford to hire someone who is. And I've been wondering how to solve that problem - or if I'd want to, because as you say, it's not a million dollar idea. But it is an empowering idea for small businesses everywhere.
This idea could be scaled (and likely is implemented somewhere) to big $$$. This is essentially a last-mile care system which could be contracted by governments to do what, in this case (not all cases), private industry can be more efficient at doing.
QAnswer
QAnswer allows the construction of question answering systems on top of proprietary datasets.
Get the most out of your data by making it accessible via natural language!
What if people want smaller countries in general? Maybe we should stop pretending that everyone can get along.
"Keep reading and writing bugs" sounds a little off. Maybe change that to "writing bug reports"?
If this ever was a race, it was always a losing one.

DNS-based content-blocker are woefully inadequate. I'd know since I co-maintain one and the barrage of complaints I get make it plenty clear where unaddressable limitations lie.
I’ve noticed that Google searches often request location. I never say yes but most people will to maps. So yeah this makes sense… as a way to make sure I don’t use Google.
Dam construction in Egypt and China very likely destroyed documents waiting to be found.
Do you have any recommendations for pull-thru caching? I’m currently going through this issue as we speak and am very interested in having this work for our usecase.
I'm getting Scribblenauts vibes in a good way.
*worth more than $100,000
thanks! Coke Studios was an inspiration. Arrow keys to move, and space to interact with objects
'But hey, that we forget is such useful.'

> um "To be honest, i for my part for shure didn't know what the heck i had forgotten at all"

'For sure, that's the good thing..."

(-;
https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE
Arch is minimal in the sense that the default system consists of very little. If you install nothing but the base metapackage, you won't get a usable system out of it at all. The purpose of Arch is to fill out a complete, working system by making your own choices. If you follow the installation guide, then you start out with base, linux, and linux-firmware. Base is a metapackages that consists of archlinux-keyring, bash, bzip2, coreutils, file, filesystem, findutils, gawk, gcc-libs, gettext, glibc, grep, gzip, iproute2, iputils, licenses, pacman, pciutils, procps-ng, psmisc, sed, shadow, systemd, systemd-sysvcompat, tar, util-linux, xz.

To get a fully-working system, you'd also need a bootloader, but Arch doesn't prescribe what that has to be. Alpine is mostly going to give you these same thing in terms of available CLI utilities, but rather than being based on GNU libc and GNU coreutils, it's based on musl and busybox. The init system is OpenRC rather than systemd. And it has a default bootloader, which is syslinux.

This makes Alpine more "minimal" in the sense of a minimal installation taking up less disk space, because musl, busybox, and OpenRC are smaller in the literal sense of the binary files consume less disk space than glibc, GNU coreutils, and systemd. Busybox also comes with ash (I think actually dash) as the default shell, which smaller than bash.

I have no idea if the apk package manager is smaller than pacman. They're both smaller than what you'd get out of a Debian or Redhat descended system.

Personally, I think it's a bit misleading to call either of these more minimal than the other. The functionality, feature set, list of available utilities is pretty much the same. Alpine is just giving you smaller files, though note that using a musl-based system presents a lot of difficulty because a fair amount of software Linux users expect and are familiar with isn't really POSIX-compliant and only works with GNU C.