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Systemd seems great for servers and sysadmins. Does it's size, scope, and complexity actually do something for the grandmas of the world who use Linux? For that basic type of user, was the millions of lines of code and probably hundreds of thousands of hours of programmer's time worth it?
You categorically stated that there is never any cause to be in a crowd. Makes for a better discussion when you don’t impose your lofty opinion as an absolute, don’t you think?
Thanks for taking the time to answer. Yet I fail to see how this answers to my question (I must be dumb):

"why paying for unimportant news?"

(edit: I don't get the policy from "Le monde" either. For example I see some important news which are paywalled, while other important news are free. Same for unimportant news. It seems the categorization is quite done at random (at least in what I read today).

If you take "Les echos" it's clearer, important news are paywalled, which I find more logical as a business model.)
40 times faster seems fast on paper, but honestly I would love a CPU 4 million times faster.
> think the range of an the int type is, I quote [...] "65 thousand-something"

Whether or not this is a completely ludicrous answer depends entirely on how you presented the question (i.e. whether or not it was clear that you're talking about java instead of asking a more general question).

For example, in C, the int type can be as low as 16 bits in size, yielding "65 thousand-something" possible values in the worst case. So that could be a reasonable answer as the guaranteed range of values for an int. And even in an android interview, C(++) can conceivably be the assumed context if the previous questions have been NDK-related.

> Let alone it's not even a range!

I feel like it's not a particularly uncommon shorthand to refer to the extent of a range of values that something can take as "the range" of that something.
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Leetcode is the only thing that scales consistently.

At small companies, a senior engineer can ask about past projects and get a sense of whether the candidate was a meaningful contributor or just along for the ride, but that's subjective and inconsistent when you have thousands of seniors.
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen Platt is a fantastic popular history of the Taiping Rebellion. He's especially good on covering the weathervaning western attitude towards something that was initially believed to be a sort of Christian holy war. The whole book is super interesting reading even if you have zero background in Chinese history.
Why? That seems entirely innocuous?
Heavy drinking and day-long parties are famously restful.
This needs a title change or deserves to be flagged. This is an estimate by someone on the outside doing a bunch, as he describes it, "back-of-the-envelope calculation.".

To post this with the current title of "Cost of running ChatGPT is $100K per day, or $3M per month" is absurd.
> perfectly executed business plans that don't have layoffs?

Plaid was actively recruiting 2 weeks ago.

In spring I (and many other people) knew these types of layoffs where coming to tech this fall, the current economic situation was not some unforeseeable event. Nobody in their right mind thought the early pandemic rapid growth was healthy or sustainable. Growth for growth's sake has always been a ridiculous strategy.

This isn't a case of "less than perfect" business plans, this is people ignoring every macro economic indicator and running the ship full steam a head when this is clearly reckless behavior.

The frustration is because this reckless behavior always has consequences for someone else, which is why it continues.
With a list like this it's kinda hard to tell what's interesting and what is not.

I'm familiar with fzf and it deserves more love if you're a shell user. Essentially it's a completion/selection framework. You pipe potential options to it and it helps you narrow/select them.

What that looks like is, you hit C-r in your terminal, and it shows you all of your history and you can start typing to narrow the command you're looking for.

The other thing it does, is say you're looking for a while, but you don't really remember where it is. Hit C-t and it'll pop up a completion interface that has all of the files from the local directory. Then you can narrow it down to the files you need and dump it into the command line. It's very fast.

This is just a subset of what it can do, because it integrates with Emacs and other editors.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
I use pfSense on a small firewall appliance that has 6 intel ethernet ports and then a AP from TP-Link that is only an AP (no dual function).
Refusing to play ridiculous pronoun games is not hurting your respect and dignity. It is not anybody else's problem or responsibility to participate in this.
Sorry for a stupid question but I’ve seen it repeated on the internet many times that we can never observe anything actually falling into a black hole because it takes forever to actually fall in due to time lengthening the closer it gets. Is that true? It has never made sense to me, since we see effects of black holes all the time.
It certainly has an influence on one's life, but I refuse to make it the center point. I also refuse to be anxious about the fire/no-hire potential it can pose.

It is a useful medium for sharing things and I'm always open to contributing more good content online. But being Extremely Online? No thank you.
just a funny joke: what about using IBGP/OSPF for prefix delegation?
Disappointed that it's not about the language itself, but congrats nonetheless. Looking forward to seeing what you all have done.
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Fusion360 has a big learning curve for me. As a once a year hobbyist, not sure if it's worth the investment to learn. I think you are right that blender is probably worse than Fusion for basic carpentry planning, etc..
As someone that has little-to-no knowledge of 3D modeling and related software, the "flashier" release notes are catered more for me :)
Thanks, Jose. Really looking forward to it.
> it is now normal to give personal pronouns, even if you are he/she

Eagerly waiting for this “new normal” to come to Russia. You see, we have 6 forms of each pronoun. Mine’s are: “он / его / ему / его / им / нём”. Please, remember and use each one correctly. Like:

You blame его. But: you are speaking about нём. Not a single mistake, please.
You speak so blithely, I can see you've never gone through an Apple documentation review...
Several people have recommended GL iNet routers (OpenWRT) but I haven't tried their gear myself yet.
They're ex-plaids. Some dark humor could be done with a Monty Python sketch about a parrot.
Are you advocating for mob violence against CEOs for laying people off?
Related anecdote, my (small) school had acquired a /16 way back and so today, every single device on the network gets its own public ipv4. It was an absolute mess for security (imagine a small army of first year CS majors setting up each a Raspberry Pi) but it was kinda fun being able to experiment with servers without having to worry about NAT.
One of the very few things the Trump admin did that I kind of liked was requiring new federal buildings to have neoclassical/gothic/beaux arts styles. I wish we could look at more federal buildings and say "wow, that's beautiful, that's cultural". That in contrast to brutalism, for which I have a slight soft spot due to growing up with it but damn it's ugly.
Not for all languages. For example, I'm Bulgarian and there is no way to transliterate the letter "ъ". Our official latinisation rules (since we need to write e.g. our names in latin characters for international passports etc.) say to use "a", but that's just a close approximation. It's even in the name of the country - България, where it's transliterated as a "u", as that gets the sound across more or less. The fact is, Latin has 5 vowels and Bulgarian has 6, so there is pretty much no way to correctly transliterate Bulgarian into Latin unless we invent some new 6th vowel for the schwa sound. Also the fact that we have letters for "sh", "ch", "zh", "sht", "tz", which we can't write as the digraphs, because we also have words where the individual sounds occur in sequence, i.e. the "s" sound followed by the "h" sound, so "sh" is ambiguous. None of these problems can be solved by diacritics, because computers mostly don't understand diacritics and Americans don't understand diacritics, so they just drop them. Even in cases where there is a way to transcribe diacritics, as in the German umlaut, Americans just drop it, instead of writing it as an "e" following the vowel - using "uber" instead of "ueber", "Schrodinger" instead of "Schroedinger" (the latter even being marked wrong by my spell checker!), etc. So I don't see any way to latinise Bulgarian, as the common Latin alphabet simply does not have enough letters, adding more is not an option, and using diacritics will simply lead to them being dropped in information systems.
Depends on what you're doing with it. I'm an architect who have been using SketchUp professionally for 20 years now, and I use Blender for hobby (Geometry Nodes stuff). For architecture work, Blender absolutely can NOT replace SketchUp, unfortunately (it doesn't even have a universal Section tool, for example), even though it's an incomparably more powerful program in every other area.
Tired: effective altruism

Wired: agAPE
And Western Europe had that guy called Le Corbusier with his ideas about ideal cities where utilitarian and ugliness was the entire strategy - just because. As ridiculous it might sound, just go to Zurich and you'll see his hideous legacy everywhere: no new building is anything else than a gray rectangle, even the brand new building of the art museum. It might be garbage but it's our garbage (Swiss motto)
If you could controll the direction of a black hole, you could use it to "disinfect" the neighbourhood or send messages.
Use different slang on different accounts. Don’t bother with capitalisation on some. Use British English on some. Etc. The speaking style aligns with the username.
Software is too slow for this task, especially if that speaking doll does not have a powerful CPU. It is way cheaper to produce a lot of cheap ASICs which can recognize very fast only the "ok google" keyword, maybe few most common phonemes also, but otherwise it just throws recorded sound on the server. So, all the software for recognizing unusual phrases is usually running on cloud and the speaking doll has nothing to update.
And then those people will want things like “electricity” and “a network of wide paved roads” and “Internet” and “drinking water” and “sewage” and “timely package delivery to their front door” and “big box stores with parking lots the size of two city blocks” - and those things at that density have absolutely terrible unit economics and environmental externalities.

I frequently see people complain about how traffic is so bad, gas prices are so high, their local drivers are insane, and how dare they have to pay tolls and parking fees. Wow, I wish there were some form of spatial displacement that didn’t involve any of that!
Part of the joke with Mr Plinkett is nobody sane would do the sort of "deep dive" he is doing. It's not really meant to be an example of film criticism at its best.
I also don't fully understand it. Maybe it's driven more by the ease of autosuggesting/completing in static typed languages than actually catching bugs. It will swing back like everything else and reorient on slightly different direction. This pendulum is quite slow though.
It can do that to some extent, though the CAD side of it is still a very lacking.
At least they get to say they weren’t just laid off. The my were plaid off.
USA is nearly 250 years old. Most European states are younger, even though European peoples and cultures are indeed old. Italy is young, Rome is old.
"::ffff:1.2.3.4" is a valid IPv6 address; "IPv4-mapped IPv6"
I implemented the same in JS a few weeks ago, after I saw a TikTok channel blow up, just posting these stupid videos.

https://frgoe003.github.io/LivingRPS/
(not mobile responsive)
(I can give you a “short” but not short answer to this)
Yearly reminder that Hacker News still is IPv4 only.
Thanks. I focused on every key press.

Please actually explain your idea. Nobody is interested in trying to figure out what you're thinking
> Modern architects are just as aware of proportion as they've ever been. But thankfully they're freed from archaic notions such as e.g. exact golden ratios.

It's strange then that these freed minds produce the ugliest buildings imaginable, en masse. And then pat each other on the backs and give each other awards for being beautiful.

See, for example, this beautiful multiple-award winning waterfront in Copenhagen https://goo.gl/maps/RGpDAsREQhnsvdJu5 only matched by this beautiful Copenhagen Opera designed by award-winning architects https://goo.gl/maps/krhiU9Poh4Ahqu9v6
`rclone ncdu` is also a jewel
Not sure where to start debunking this...

When you look at old buildings you're automatically starting with survivorship bias. Expensive and well kept old buildings tend to stay around a lot longer than buildings that were built cheaply at the time. Those have all been bulldozed.

Oh, did I mention that expensive building was expensive? It's easy to ignore that huge parts of the population were living in houses with paper thin walls and spending enormous amounts of energy to keep warm or cool (on cooling people had avoided the southern united states in mass till cooling options were available).

Oh, did we also mention that not only the US population, but the global population has increased massively since then. All of those processes you're describing are massively energy and labor intensive and do not scale as you're trying to put 8 billion people under rooves.

Why lay bricks rather than fake bricks? So everyone has a home and they don't have to burn an entire forest to get it.
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> Their fervor for the German Reich is absolutely comedic to Germans, especially the insistence on it having never ceased to exist.

There are several such groups, but one of the biggest ones has an absolutely comedic rationalisation why the German Reich still exists and "I'm the one in charge, not those other two dozen clowns who have founded their own Reich governments":

They sent a letter to the American embassy. "If you want me to govern Germany on your behalf, don't object".

And the American embassy even sent back a signed confirmation!

Well, they did not. The Reichsbürger sent his letter as registered mail, the embassy's mail department signed its reception, the German post sent back the "we have delivered your registered mail" stub.

Obviously, this news today is grave and doesn't lend itself easily towards comedy, but parts of the movement are really funny in their denial of reality.
Ian Fleming explains how to write a thriller (2019)
"I am excited by the poetry of things and places, and the pace of my stories sometimes suffers while I take the reader by the throat and stuff him with great gobbets of what I consider should interest him, at the same time shaking him and shouting “Like this, damn you!” about something that has caught my particular fancy. But this is a sad lapse, and I must confess that in one of my books, Goldfinger, three whole chapters were devoted to a single game of golf."
I actually run a separate DNS proxy that does it automatically for me. (HN and lot of other sites)

I only mentioned hosts file because it is the easiest way to spoof the domain.
Not really, unfortunately, and it’s a pre-existing framework for teaching a class, so simplicity of compilation is extra important. Also if I try to isolate the SIMD bits in C++ I’ll lose the opportunity to have them be inlined which will defeat the optimization purpose.

For those that are new to this, can you give an example of a kind of computation or algorithm which is well-served by your project, but not possible with vector extensions like https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors-... ?
One thing that comes to mind as someone who is not in the know of these new tools would be, are they safe?

The old tools have been there forever and used everywhere. My assumption would be these are safe and don't change often. For better or for worse, I would be concerned about using the newer tools unless they are backed and/or approved by a large open source org.
That is a very one-sided view of adoption. It ties directly with the rise of mobile and internet in areas that wasn't able to grab IPv4 addresses in time. Such as India. Not sure what France is doing though, maybe something right.

So, from my perspective (which obviously is tied to my location) is that all computers have IPv4 (haven't heard (and I've asked) of a single consumer ISP that offers IPv6) but all mobile phones have IPv6. Whether people in general do most searches on mobile or PC is gonna change that graph dramatically, but won't explain what I would be interested in regarding ipv6 adoption. That is, how much of the world would be broken without IPv4?

And for that, that graph isn't completely useless - but not too far off.
That's kind of my point: there's so much fascinating and important work going on right now that the book just sort of gestures at in the rush to make their political points. FWIW, I'm sympathetic to their arguments, but I'd like to see them more well-supported (than they were in that book, IMO.)
I hadn't thought of it that way.

I shall steal that pithy quote for future use!
I don't know, its pretty bright. Maybe this periodic flash-fry is what created life on earth!
Or a "journalctl --vacuum-time=1d" will usually clear a lot of space
Testimonial: I've observed mere users on Facebook using archive.ph and web.archive.org to make "backups" of pages they think will be taken down. Not wide usage to be sure but definitely outside of the techie/HN type community.
> With a library, I can't borrow an ebook to my reading device.

We have this in my little town in USA for over 10yrs now. Movies and music and newspapers too. Only thing that this process doesn't have is microfiche.
My local newspaper will issue copyright takedowns on Reddit when they see archive.org links to their articles. They are owned by McClatchy so I assume this applies to all McClatchy newspapers.
I spent a while fighting with Arrow, grim, there's a way to go yet.
What would we do about all of the processes that fork but don't ever exec? And isn't posix_spawn implemented in terms of vfork, which a lot of people like even less?
The last time I checked, there were only nascent efforts to add the borrow checker to C++.

That's the main reason to implement in Rust (the others being syntactic sugar like match, ?, and, of course, the library ecosystem that learned from ~ C++17's mistakes).
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Mint opted out of systemd-oomd with v21: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31960266

Ubuntu 22.04 was also affected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31530739

And flipped a config flag to make it less aggressive: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Drops-Swap-Kill
Nope, the CPU presents you an interface of the available instructions but those instructions are a complete fiction on modern processors and don't have to match at all what the underlying hardware does. The CPU guarantees that the observable effects of the instructions are consistent (i.e if the processor wants to do some fuckery it can't change the instruction semantics) but beyond that is free to run your code however it wants.
Their offices of record were empty when check by journalists. The founder is Russian, most of the engineering team is Russian. The founder visits Russia regularly. I assume their non-resident Russian engineers visit Russia too.Most of their user base is Russian. And they have an agreement with the Russian government not to be blocked if they cooperate on combatting terrorism.
Do you mean tens or hundreds of thousands of requests per second?
Because then Amazon would likely get into legal anti-trust hot water with their sellers over Prime being a monopoly.

They would argue that Amazon is being unfair on their own platform by excluding non-Prime products from search results by default when there is no way of telling if a consumer wants results to be filtered that way.
Page volume in scientific reporting is not at all an indicator of quality or validity. Disclaimer: I haven't read the report yet. Just sayin'
Wouldn't this still overflow when one of the values is positive, the other is negative, and their difference is sufficiently large?
I find it interesting because I think a lot about computing on your own terms.

This is the norm: Vendor-locked hardware, operating systems that manipulate you into making choices that benefit others than you, software updates that remove functionality or render devices useless, access to multimedia that is revoked, services shutting down to make devices bound to them useless unless hacked.

And I think I seek problems when I insist on running Linux on known hardware. But I avoid. so. much. by doing do.
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I dunno, all these companies probably hope to return to growth trajectories soon-ish. It's not like a manufacturer who discovers that the world needs less of what it produces, so decides to downscale permanently - growth is everything for software companies. Meaning if they have enough runway, they might as well keep people employed during droughts and have them develop what is expected to create value after drought is gone. But it requires long-term thinking.
That wouldn’t accomplish anything but symbolically (which some companies have done, eg Chesky reducing his salary to 0 during the AirBnB layoffs). In the end director+ level comp is a drop in the bucket to the bottom line. It buys no time.

Always firing the CEO when they make bets that don’t turn out just causes corporate stagnation since executives will always take the safe option if those are the incentives.
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> a bit easier

I don't know about that...

W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie /
I Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie. /
Wół go pyta: „Panie chrząszczu, /
Po cóż pan tak brzęczy w gąszczu?”

(In Szczebrzeszyn a beetle sounds in the reeds /
And Szczebrzeszyn is famous for this. /
An ox asks him: "Mister beetle, /
What are you buzzing in the bushes for?")
> Overall, I see no evidence of problems of proportion getting worse.

Except if you ask people, specifically the people who *have to work in, live in and around these buildings*, and given the choice, they will choose, time and time again, architectural styles which have fallen out of favour with the vandals.

Some think beauty is simply in the eye of the beholder and it's the plebs who have a false consciousness. Perhaps you're one of them.
Would use OpenBSD + unbound to get NAT64 + DNS64.
I'd prefer a dual-stack setup with RFC1918 IPv4 internally + a NAT44 gateway and IPv6 "just" on top.
Drawback: if you find yourself to have to do a lot of firewalling it essentially doubles your work.
So exactly like current situation, with content providers forever stuck at providing old version for old clients.
Anyone try this on Windows Server?
I'm not using systemd, but have been pretty happy with earlyoom. It tends to take out my web browser I think. Fairly inoffensive.
If only there was an alternative to Google and Apple app stores, and to being a "green texter". I hate duopolies.