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I completely agree. Funny that you mentioned button remapping, that's literally my number one problem with RetroArch since I first used it many years ago. The input mapping system is confusing and the RetroPad abstraction is redundant and unnecessary.

If it doesn't manage to autoconfigure the controller, you want to remap inputs or you're using a keyboard, you're in for some pain. The GUI doesn't show which actual physical button you're remapping core inputs to, only the RetroPad button. You have to keep in mind two levels of chained button mappings which is harder than it seems. If you remap the RetroPad itself you also remap the entire user interface inputs which leads to stupid situations where the GUI stops working and I have to edit the config file to undo whatever mistake I made that left the inputs in an inconsistent state such as two buttons mapped to the same key.

I actually argued with this guy on 4chan over this once many years ago. Why not have cores enumerate their inputs so that the frontend can map directly to them? SNES cores would return the symbols representing the buttons on the SNES pad. Something like this:

core.inputs.digital = [↑ ↓ ← → A B X Y L R START SELECT]

We'd be able to map buttons and keys directly to those symbols just like every single standalone emulator out there without any of this RetroPad business getting in the way. He basically told me that the RetroPad is perfect, I'm retarded and if I'm autistic enough to want to use a keyboard to play games I deserve to be a second class citizen.
Since Guttenberg WP has become a complete mess and most devs I know are migrating away from it. It’s definitely on the chopping block.
thanks, will have to check this out!
> ZX81 Goes Nuclear – Controlling a Nuclear Power Plant

I'm going to have to read that one and very carefully. The ZX81 may the single most unstable thing I've ever come across.

My resounding childhood recollection was that if someone sneezed in the next town the connection to the 16Kb RAM Pack (required to do anything) would shift and everything would be lost.

Even Sir Clive's suggestion of using a "small piece of Blu Tack" couldn't save it.
If they could explain how fusion energy can kill more people than fusion bombs funding would be unlimited.
Not complaining about the xml vs json vs yaml vs csv thing. It's more that when you choose XML, you've chosen streaming and reading it completely. There is no way to read it partially and only use the little bit needed.
> almost impossible to do on the downside

And yet most stable coins have maintained their peg for years now, despite many of them having gone through 2 large bear markets. If 80%-90% down and still pegged doesn't disprove "impossible to do on the downside" I don't know what could.

Clarification: I do think Tether is not fully backed and is likely to depeg some day, but the assertion that it's "impossible to do on the downside" is clearly not true even for Tether. And it's very clearly not impossible to keep a peg if the peg is fully backed, which may be the case for some coins (without naming specifics). DAI, backed by verifiable collateral, has also done extremely well through 2 bear markets.
> “We have had a theoretical understanding of fusion for over a century, but the journey from knowing to doing can be long and arduous. Today’s milestone shows what we can do with perseverance,” said Dr. Arati Prabhakar, the President’s Chief Advisor for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

This part gives me so much hope as we have understandings of what is theoretically possible, and in due time humanity reaches them. This gives me a lot of hope especially in the fields of curing major diseases and in longevity!
Admitting or not that something is a security is not a requisite for the thing to be found to be a security.
When I was a kid in the 80-ties parents sent me to buy cigarettes for them. It was not illegal to sell them to minors. I guess there'll be reversal of that practice in New Zealand.
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HashBackup author here. Your question is (I think) about how well block-based dedup functions on a database - whether rows are changed or columns are changed. This answer is how most block-based dedup software, including HashBackup work.

Block-based dedup can be done either with fixed block sizes or variable block sizes. For a database with fixed page sizes, a fixed block size matching the page size is most efficient. For a database with variable page sizes, a variable block size will work better, assuming there the dedup "chunking" algorithm is fine-grained enough to detect the database page size. For example, if the db used a 4-6K variable page size and the dedup algo used a 1M variable block size, it could not save a single modified db page but would save more like 20 db pages surrounding the modified page.

Your column vs row question depends on how the db stores data, whether key fields are changed, etc. The main dedup efficiency criteria are whether the changes are physically clustered together in the file or whether they are dispersed throughout the file, and how fine-grained the dedup block detection algorithm is.
> “You should use a suboptimal solution to cater for unknown future requirements” is a terrible argument

Not exactly the same, but over the years I've heard people argue against having super customized shell configurations (e.g. completions, prompts, highlighting) because they won't be available if you have to use a different environment (e.g. sshing into a temporary cloud server to debug something failing in CI). I don't pretend that other people will value tradeoffs the same as me, but it's a mindset I can't really imagine ever having. I'd rather be happy most of the time even if I know I'm going to be unhappy for short periods occasionally in the future, and I don't really think the slight efficiency gain in the uncommon case due to being used to not having nice features is going to outweigh the larger efficiency gain for the much more common case.

At the risk of straying entirely off-topic, I've seen this in non-professional contexts at times as well; I recently had a friend in an online game mention that he doesn't like to utilize a convenience feature that happens for a couple weeks each year as part of a special even because he would miss it too much the rest of the time. While I don't think the tradeoff is quite as obvious to me for this sort of thing, I feel like occasionally having a fun temporary addition is worth it just for the change of pace, and I'm generally able to adapt to the loss of a minor convenience relatively quickly after losing it. It seems sort of like a question of "maximizing peak happiness" versus "minimizing peak unhappiness" or even "maximizing average happiness"; I like having something to get excited about every now and then even if it leads to feeling blase about things for a bit later because I get bored if things stay the same for too long.
100% agree! We'll get there :)
Your friends

- grep (or ripgrep), sort, uniq, head, tail, cut, colrm, tr

- diff

- jq

- bat

- ministat

- less, more, percol

- Facebook Path Picker (fpp)
It's a _remote_ island nation so they have better ability to control contraband. Moreover, Japan is a decent example of tough on drugs policies with decent success (and also Singapore, but they are quite draconian). So it need not be a forgone failure.
Brave also blocks ads, and by default.
Educate educate educate. Don't even try to solve this within generation, this is something which need to be really through generations. Educate people how bad cigarettes are for them and others and you can use also soft propaganda as painting smokers as bad people in media etc instead straight up banning smoking, you can just make smoking extremely appalling.
Don't the high tax rates in Europe also play a role?
Huh, I almost posted a duplicate recommendation. My only complaint with lnav was that it had to be built from source on Linux and the build was frigging huge. Apparently they have a pre-compiled linux-musl binary now.
65 - First home computer, ZX81. First college course, FORTRAN on hand punched cards. Response to first viewing of a 10MB Winchester disk in the lab...oooh, incredible!

Still working professionally in information analytics/coding (UK National Health Service)
Why shouldn't the open web still be a thing?
> Meanwhile, the four questions I listed above are not being addressed. Patent law is working against us, since Katcher’s E5 patent is for a process of extraction. If a subset of active ingredients is identified and the minimal set of rejuvenating proteins becomes known, his patent becomes worthless. Naturally occurring proteins cannot be patented.

> This is the maddening influence of capitalism and intellectual property law on anti-aging science. The most promising avenue for rejuvenation (IMO) is not attracting research attention because it cannot attract venture capital; it can’t attract venture capital because there is no attractive business model; and there is no business model because of the structure of our patent law.

This is common in pharma patent law. At an earlier company we made some progress on a treatment for a fairly common disease, but it looked like any compounding pharmacy could make it. So we abandoned that path and went in a different direction that was protectable (and more effective, true). The inverse is the case as well: had the less effective treatment been available, it might not have been worth developing something that could help even more people, because those that needed the better treatment would not be enough to justify development.

But the situation is not as clear as stated by the author. First of all, much of the work is basic research, and that is mostly funded by governments and charities. Second of all, even if you've identified a mechanism of action, developing a feasible in vivo way to trigger that action, figuring out how to manufacture it at scale, and getting it approved can provide many patent opportunities. When people complain "why are drugs expensive when the government pays for it" they miss the point: "government" developed the transistor,* it was private companies that developed the IC and the microprocessor. The situation with drugs is analogous.

* Yes the transistor was invented at Bell Labs, but Bell Labs only existed due to the structure of the government's consent decree for the Bell telephone company, and when that decree was lifted Bell Labs suffered a precipitous decline. Anyway, it's just an analogy.
I grew up in a household with two smoking parents, and it sucked. So on a personal level, nothing would be better than the world collectively giving up the nasty habit. However, I would never, ever advocate or vote for forcing people to do that. Why? Because you could make the exact same case for every single vice. Alcohol has zero benefits for your health - don't even try to give me the "but wine has antioxidants" B.S., the math between the negatives and positives is still in the red (ha!). How about caffeine and other stimulants? Foods too high in fat? Red meat? Too much sunshine? XYZ thing that is considered "unhealthy" this week by the "experts"? Don't get me wrong, reasonable limits imposed at a societal level can certainly make sense (banning smoking from restaurants and airplanes, having blood-alcohol driving laws, et cetera). But the fundamental question here is do you really want to trust your personal decisions on health, diet, and entertainment to those elected via a popularity contest? And the "experts" they solicit their advice from?
Can someone calculate how much installed solar power could we get by pausing fusion r&d for the next 10-20 years?
uBlock Origin.

Ads on mobile are generally a big impact to user experience (small screen, data limits) so blocking them is a killer feature for Firefox android.
If this works on an 8088, booting directly from the boot sector, how far are we to compiling it for a Game Boy (an 8080-like) cartridge?
> Why would I care about Nazis using Tumblr if I didn’t follow any?

But other people, possibly young and impressionable people, will.
Why do you hate git? I've been pretty happy with it for code, and wouldn't mind being able to use it for data repositories as well.
- Snapdragon SoCs use ARM cores a chip architecture designed by ... ARM (UK)

- TSMC and Samsung Chip fabrication is done with machinery designed by ASML (Netherlands)

- ASML litography is only possible with precision optics designed by Zeiss (Germany)

- The Linux kernel of the 'US' designed OS is actually Finnish.

Cherry picking will paint whatever picture you want.
Except that it is much simpler and more straightforward for someone to pay for a super node to help serve all their content. You don't need to mess with setting up the server instance, configuring DNS or setting up services, and if you want to change super node providers you only have to reconfigure your client and you're done, no initial setup or DNS shenanigans.
Safari outperforms both on watts-consumed-per-browsing-hour, which I personally care about a whole lot more than how quickly it can complete benchmarking tasks, and yet I'd not claim Chrome or FF aren't "modern functioning browser[s]".
First, I love the saying that Mate is the "drink of hospitality in South America."

Second, there have been some very interesting studies done with Yerba Mate -capsules- where if taking 6 500mg capsules there is an association with weight loss and especially appetite suppression. It functions much the same way (though not as acute) as GLP-1 like Ozempic/semaglutide which is all the rage right now.
The losers are inside the country, but a rising tide allegedly lifts all boats, and the drag of corruption on a quickly-growing economy still results in net growth. And when there's net growth, and a lot of it, the sore losers can be brushed aside.

The secret to a quickly-growing economy is government investment in infrastructure, grueling work hours in high-margin industries[1], and an export focus. And, if Korea[2], China, and Vietnam are any indicators, a brutal and repressive dictatorship can't hurt.

[1] Your country won't get rich growing peas.

[2] Pre-1987.
If the price of tacos doubles, and the price of toilet paper halves, in a universe with only those two commodities, what is inflation?

It's (2, 0.5).

You could turn this into a scalar if you want to. But you have to throw away information to do so. Or, to put it another way, you have to select a subset of the information.

You can't interpret the inflation vector as a direction, because inflation space is not a metric space (or something - the particular genre of vector spaces where geometric concepts are meaningful).
More money attracts more eyes, hands, grey matter which they would otherwise focus on something with more money. But it is a long process.
I'm repeating what I've heard. Personally, I suspect even that wouldn't reach the goal of being competitive.
Postmortem of Butt Mover
Fun! We have support for running on gokrazy (https://gokrazy.org/) already, and that's probably where Unikernel Linux is more applicable for us, for when people just want a "Tailscale appliance" image.

I'll email you.
> Alcohol is also objectively bad,

Alcohol is a wonderful drug in low doses. It is a social lubricant, relieves stress, lowers inhibitions.

It is possible to use alcohol without it being very bad for you.
Would you rather the us takes second place in researching space and energy tech?
or as I like to say to encourage myself that small things matter

"Stars are made of quarks"
Cash withdrawls have a ohysical aspect, cash. In the case of Binance, there is no such aspect. Obviously, banks have limits around cash withdrawls not the least due to limited amount of cash at hand at a given sight. Banks will happily allow you to wire transfer money wherever you want, since this is only a virtuap things and banks are required to have enough liquidity to serve those requests.

Crypto is no like cash.
Ask HN: Do any of you have good undergrad comeback stories?
I am currently and actively screwing up, unintentionally, in a T-5 CS program. Even, though I am still in this no good, horrible semester. Is there hope?
Right up there with "On Error Resume Next" from the world of VB!
yes. fusion funding has been sliding downwards for decades which is a large reason why it takes so long to do anything.

It's largely the same reason why NASA takes so long to do anything.

1. Shortage of funding

2. failure can result in loss/exhaustion of funding

3. extremely low risk tolerance

4. physical experiments needing new HW only happen when the likelihood of success is extremely high

5. projects are over engineered to reduce chance of failure

6. projects are over budget and over schedule

7. projects only make minor incremental progress

8. lack of fast/exciting progress drives decrease in funding

9. GOTO 1
Then pass a law that applies to all social media companies algorithms if it is so important to protect your citizens from whatever issue you see. So far, no one has been able to point to TikTok doing something horrible. I mean, we have more actual examples of malfeasance from basically every other social media company.
I have a VERY vague memory that you could copy win32s from 3.1 into 3.0 to help running 32bit apps there. There might have been some fiddling with some sys.ini involved. But I might just be dreaming awake or something...
I don't know. This is not "we're there", not by a long shot. But it still seems to me to be worth throwing a lot of confetti over.
What line has TikTok crossed, specifically? Is it just the content? Global reach? Data governance? User count?

I too can predict conversation topics based on what's trending in Twitter. But Twitter is now owned (in part) by investors representing foreign interests, including KSA [1]. Recent editorial changes at Twitter have amplified "unamerican" rhetoric [2]. Does Twitter cross the same lines as TikTok?

Any "solution" that bans TikTok would leave behind a far-reaching precedent, one that is completely ineffective at dealing with the core problem. Trying to stand up a virtual iron curtain won't sit well with an american userbase that's accustomed to choosing the content they want.

Also, if there's one thing you can do to make young people more captivated and curious about something - make it forbidden.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-hol...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zm9q/elon-musk-twitter-naz...
Is doctor pay much higher in the US than the EU?

I had always assumed that healthcare had crazy high costs in the US because they have a middleman who is motivated to refuse payment as much as possible (insurance companies) so healthcare providers have to inflate costs to try and stay even.
That's how I see it as well. Also, if you need to tag on more conditions, convert it to an `if`

The `unless` is idiomatic to the Ruby way of thinking.
Maybe the corner is just a very long one, but one that’s so important to turn any material progress is important news? I think post scarcity is monumental.
Security is available for everyone. It's centralised security that can be easily managed by IT that isn't.

I don't see an issue with charging more for SSO though as I said some of the prices are egregious.
Don McMillan – Greatest Charts (Volume 1)
True, for absolute fixed strings, the author's approach is superior.

Off the cuff, another way to do it is with awk's index function. I don't know what speed penalty this might impose.

$ cat ~/fmgrep
#!/bin/awk -f

BEGIN { split(ARGV[1], s, ","); ARGV[1]="" }

{ m = 1; for(c in s) if(index($0, s[c])) m = 0; if(m) print }

$ ~/fmgrep sshd,systemd,polkitd /var/log/secure
Yes... and no. The git userspace is horrible for this. The git data model is wonderful.

The git userspace would need to be able to easily:

1. Not grab all files

2. Got grab the whole version history

... and that's more-or-less it. At that point, it'd do great with large files.
In addition, ethnicity wouldn't gain him any measurable leverage. His wife or his in-laws would need to be senior party members in order for a political marriage to have any advantage.

As a gweilo who lived 10 years in Hong Kong, roughly half the time single and half the time married, my perception is that speaking Canto/Mandarin is a much better leg up than marrying someone who looks local.

(Funny, though, conversations with strangers would generally start with Canto being spoken to my wife, who would give a blank look and point to me, and I'd reply in Mandarin, followed by the stranger speaking Mandarin at my wife while I replied in Mandarin and occasionally dropped English bread crumbs for my wife. So many people just found it too awkward to speak Mandarin with a gweilo and preferred to speak Mandarin at my obviously-non-comprehending wife. That being said, I have a deep affection for Hong Kong and its residents, and it's pretty easy to get around just speaking English.)
> Why would I care about Nazis using Tumblr if I didn’t follow any?

This guy clearly hasn’t heard of the nazi-at-the-bar story. (Paraphrase: an usassuming guy wearing a white supremacist symbol sits and is immediately told to get out, with violence threatened if necessary, by the bartender. The bartender later explains there’s a strategy for unassuming authoritarians who don’t cause a problem end up bringing their friends and suddenly they’re driving other clientele away because it’s a nazi bar, and then it’s too late to peacefully resolve the problem because the nazis will use their numbers to fight any enforcement.)
Transferring money back to your bank account does indeed take days, at least for Venmo.
Yeah, if you're a person who'd invest a big chunk of your life into a zero-to-one effort, you're more likely than usual to think the health establishment missed some opportunities, and that you have better than average judgement of the apparent opportunities and their risk-to-reward. This should explain such people trying such things, without shamanism. (OTOH yes, the startup-CEO population includes mimics of this type of person.)

You can come to this belief through either actual discernment or entrepreneur personality disorder. Me, I at least agree that there's a health establishment that could be a lot better at settling on truth, and that discernment is a quality that varies.

Skimming the Wired piece, the closest to the above that I saw was:

> So are CEO-shamans putting on a show? People everywhere intuit that self-denial and other shamanic practices cultivate power. Being human, tech executives presumably draw the same inferences. At least part of their decision to engage in shamanic practices, then, might stem from a sincere desire to be special.
Sigh. Why is HN always like this? (don’t answer, I know)

Piercing the veil broadly refers to removing limited liability protections because the individuals behaved in such a way (criminally) that they have forfeited their protections.

The most common people held to limited liability protections are shareholders in limited liability corporations (LLCs)

A different sort of limited liability is the idea that customers/partners of a fraudulent business are not liable for that fraud, unless they committed gross negligence in allowing the fraud to continue.

To your point, there is not a snappy term for that specific phenomenon, because it is so rare, but piercing the veil 100% applies here because it refers to the “veil of limited liability”.
The Delight of Edward Hopper’s Solitude
Play is not the same as bullying.

Picking on the vulnerable builds no skill of value.
Curious where you found this? I skimmed the press release for a minute and didn't immediately see discussion of the repeatability.