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I don't understand, why do people throw in trash can one of the strongest Linux features: package management.

Left aside security implications of "curl | bash" installation - what will you do if installation fails and you need to roll-back partial changes to system? How will you update this software? How will you uninstall in the future? How will you track CVEs for it, if your package manager doesn't know about its existence and all periodic scripts of your distro can not check for CVEs? How you will update libraries used by this software, are you sure this will not broke it?
Exactly this. Already we have this issue with typed languages today.

Proof languages will be welcomed but we must apply discipline as we do today with type heavy languages.
Deep learning is clever matrix multiplications with some clever loss functions.

When I first started learning theoretical deep learning I was afraid of it since it seemed so difficult. Then I realized that it's just doing matrix multiplication with some clever tricks to introduce inductive bias, and clever loss functions that teach you how to optimize the parameters of your matrices. And a lot of data.
"Vulnerable" is an odd word to use there. "Ideological splitting" is the way humans have interacted since the Tower of Babel. Forcing everyone into the same conversation is a guaranteed way to produce conflict. I would say "Mastodon facilitates ideological splitting as a way to have more pleasant conversations and less absurd arguments."
Human-Computer Interface, in case anyone else was wondering.
Hong Kong’s Cultural Icons Vanish as Covid Hastens Gentrification
Why would a company hire someone only to push them away from their area of expertise? That doesn't make sense to me. The only reason I would expect someone to be pushed away from their main activities is being bad at their job. If you want to be sexist, you can just not hire someone.
I am from Kenya and this is what one of our journalists had to say about Iran after working there
https://www.the-star.co.ke/sasa/word-is/2021-09-08-how-racis...
Pay-to-win games are generally video games which have one ruleset.

Playing Magic in tournaments has largely been P2W for decades. It's a collectable card game, so the cards have varying rarity. The more powerful cards cost more on the secondary market. And Wizards of the Coast (and now Hasbro) keeps releasing new cards, which require more investment.

But if I'm playing with my friends, we can make up whatever rules we want. I can easily source proxy ('fake') cards much more cheaply. Or, what we used to do, you get a land card (which is practically worthless) and write the name of the card you want on it. Then you act as if that land is the card you wrote.

So amongst friends it's not nearly as expensive, because you can play Magic outside of the tournament ruleset. Not so with most P2W video games.
They're not even touching that but it's possible. The issue is you can still write proofs that appear correct, but really, they aren't.
I used to do the same, but I've been pleasantly surprised by VS Code's support for Jupyter notebooks. VS Code is my main editor, so it's really nice having all my familiar keybindings, plugins, VSCodeVim, etc. working out of the box.
Some alpine meadows in full bloom are a properly beautiful sensory experience
Very thorough ELI5, thank you. I wonder how difficult/expensive it is to test for IgG4? I ask because I do routine 7 day water fast every 3 months, and in theory, the body is suppose to repair and expel foreign substances. More importantly, it is also suppose to renew the immune system. I'd like to test the amount of IgG4 in my body.
In the 21st century, every date picker should be able to accept both mouse and keyboard input and be very permissive about what is allowed.

There should be a text box I can just type "January 1 2022" or "2022-1-1" or "4/20/69" into, and it just figures it out (with a disambiguation dialog and 'save as default' popped if I feed it something ambiguous).
Your example is kind of unintentionally hilarious, because "hard work works" is in fact an incredibly controversial stance, and one that has caused people to lose jobs, "get cancelled" or be called racist, unsympathetic, privileged and out of touch, tone deaf, etc.

Even here on HN, where the users are far more entrepreneurial, aspirational and self-improvement focused than the population average, people are still cautious to ascribe only a small portion of their success to hard work and to make the obligatory statements about luck, privilege, community and circumstances as the major factors.
Antifragile does point out real problems that many don't notice, but fails to notice the incredible success of many fragilista ideas.

We have quite a bit of ability to control things. All my friends who are into fitness enough to cite a PR seem to have constant random aches and pains.

People who just walk and eat healthy but never push themselves have much less.

There are some scientific benefits to ice baths, and I do take cold showers(Anything to defend against the viruses here!), but you won't see me "Playing through the pain" or quitting a job to hike for 3 months.

I do think absolutely everyone should read Taleb though. Both for the few useful ideas not commonly found elsewhere, and because you'll see antifragile thinking everywhere and have a better understanding of other people.
I wonder how you would have been laughing if you didn't have a wife, and weren't allowed to leave the house, hike, or meet people. Probably wouldn't have been quite as funny, but I'm glad you had a good laugh at everyone else's experience.
It has no concept of lying.
You're absolutely right. However, that trial-and-error can be really difficult for people who have less ability to maintain immediate communication with their doctor, retrieve a new prescription, etc. For someone like me in their 30s it would be a minor-ish annoyance, but for someone who is elderly, or who is having some sort of medical emergency, such an inefficiency goes from being an annoyance to being a pretty critical issue.
I use hjkl to scroll 90% of the time when using my browser. Having it on the middle of the keyboard where your hand rests make a lot more sense to me than weirdly angling your hand at the bottom right of my MacBook.
This is what has been pushing Arch Linux and the AUR for me
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095258
> computers will be able to translate natural language into machine instructions with 100% effectiveness

People have been saying this since 1960 at the very least.

In reality, it is vastly more likely that humans will finally learn to speak computer.
It's fairly easy to learn, already universal, and there is no incentive at all for 99% of people to change it (only a fraction of the population would ever want the super fast typing, rest of us have to think hard and type few). I suspect that it'll stay around unless a new form of input device that directly interfaces with human mind is created.
Those are both great questions, and there is plenty of other terrific speculation in this thread, but one thing I haven't seen yet is the word "collapse".

In 100 years, it's possible the only computing being done will be of the biological sort, by far smaller and more resilient life forms than humanity. Even if we survive, the seemingly inexorable progression of technology may take a back seat to survival, and we could easily be struggling just to maintain functionality of devices we no longer have the ability to manufacture.

I suppose I should temper the doom & gloom a bit by mentioning that I think we still have several chances to squeak out a pathway to avoid massive and violent die-offs, but that window is certainly narrowing and we aren't doing nearly enough. Hundreds of millions of climate refugees (or more) are going to disrupt pretty much everything if we don't start planning what to do with them now.
Sadly fedex being late on deliveries probably affects and costs them more than southwest cancelling a flight.
If you're in actual pain (not just sore) after the gym, you're doing something wrong.

Did I miss the point of the article? It seems like it skipped why someone is looking to get tough. Without that, I'm skeptical that sitting in an ice tub etc is really effective at making someone tough outside of that very specific scenario.
When a dog does it, would it be trundoged instead?
Why so should people answer or respond if the responses are ignored in order to repeat posting the same wrong preconceptions… preconceptions that were already addressed and even provided a contemporary example that was also ignored.
Immediately prior to Trump’s remarks, Bill Bryan said:

“‘We tested bleach,’ he said at one point. ‘I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes.’”

Trump followed this with:

“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning.”

So to be completely fair, Trump suggested that injecting bleach could cure covid. Much better.

It’s embarrassing that there are people in this thread claiming he wasn’t talking about bleach.
you know saying that trump is right on a few topics doesn't mean we are fan. most of the immigration policies and china policies that biden is running right now are from the trump era. Biden was saying then that trump was racist for doing it.
The Clang and GCC ABIs aren't quite 100% compatible there, e.g. you can't pass __int128 between libraries compiled by different compilers.
This looks like it would fit my requirements perfeectly. Thanks for sharing
Neither am I, so I'm really confused on your point. Are you saying you know nothing about anything that happened before your time?
Yes, this is true but only from the reference frame of the cosmic background radiation. It is still possible that you can get O(n^3) from the reference frame of the aliens themselves, because time dilation makes travel fairly fast. You get into some spacetime philosophy about what metrics are worth evaluating O against in the first place.
Sites like GOG provide you with DRM free installers of all their games - you can backup those wherever you want.
I feel people would be more “forgiving” of zucc’s spending in the meta verse if he had just done it instead of renaming the company and trumpeting it as the second coming of God himself.
In Spain the lockdown was deemed unconstitutional by the Tribunal Constitucional, our equivalent of the Supreme Court.
Darknet Operation Security Podcast
I have used the support chat multiple times in the last two months and never seen the light come on indicating the camera was activated. I am inclined to think this is a feature that they are testing (maybe a video chat support) rather than wide release.
Candidate for worst take in 2022?

Could you elaborate into what is noble about censoring the discussion about the safety of covid-related mitigations by official, recognised scientists?
Are people supposed to get sore from dragging a couple limbs?
I feel like I've heard "In 10 years, I expect programming languages will be mostly obsolete, since computers will be able to translate natural language into machine instructions with 100% effectiveness." every decade for the last four decades. I feel like the problem with such predictions is that imprecision is a featured of natural languages that is incompatible not only with precision required by our current computing hardware and programming languages but incompatible with the precision required for understanding. If you could translate natural language into machine language with 100% effectiveness, you could get rid of lawyers, judges, juries, and courts, not just programmers. I don't see that happening.
I've only used numba once but I was really impressed. We have an analysis at work that runs hundreds of times a day which uses a Hampel filter written in numpy, but still requires iterating over an array. Just adding a @numba.jit decorator above the function gave us a 10x speed improvement.
Visually symmetric words
Anon for a reason;
At one point they were looking for a growth person; on a lark I tried to use their service to apply for the job by signing up and using their service to do/coordinate the various steps.

My thought was (and someone on their side could have seen this as well) it would make a great piece for earned media later as I could say I got the job at getmagic by using the service...which is the kind of thing you'd want your growth person thinking about.

They were almost allergic to this idea the entire time, it was kinda crazy the friction I got from what I was asking them to do. I was also doing it as a test of them as well, so glad I thought of that angle.
Snowflake at it's most basic is SQL on cloud vms, anyone comfortable with SQL should feel at home there. That said, there are many Snowflake specific features that may take a bit to become familiar with. Just off the top of my head:

- hybrid RBAC, DAC, ABAC security model
- column, row level, and tag based access policies
- multi-account organizations
- cross-account and region data replication
- data shares
- external tables and specialized formats (iceberg, delta)
- pipes and streams
- snowpark API
- streamlit integration
Files/dumps as an API is vastly underrated.
Show HN: Universal Binary DBMS Interface
It's not only about safari, if you get the thread reference, i.e. the issue is not confined to browser design only. Happens at times/sites with kiwi, FF, brave, chrome, adblock browser & samsung internet.
what happened? My experience with GSuite support has been great.
Considering how we do limb prosthetics, we won't know how to interface a brain with a computer. We know how to make a computer compatible enough for the brain to interface with the computer. This can be the way this plays out.

Arguably, we already did that (make an interface that our brain adapts to): programming languages, keyboards, are already man-made interfaces our brain adapted to.
The details matter.

Japan did not experience a major wave before the borders were reopened. The peaks were lower than in Europe and the US, and contact tracing never failed as badly.

Contact tracing was the key tool, at least before omicron. If there were sufficient resources for it and compliance was high enough, local outbreaks could be kept under control.

Contact tracing was also where international border closures helped. If somebody crosses a jurisdictional border with an infection, the first sign of trouble is usually when they test positive. By that time, they have often had plenty of time to infect other people. On the other hand, if the infection came from within the same jurisdiction, contact tracing may reach that person several days earlier.

And regarding essential travel and international trade, land borders make everything worse. When the goods travel by trucks, there are many people who cross borders and interact with the general population. With planes and ships, it's much easier to isolate the people who cross borders from everyone else. And with ships, the long journey acts as a natural quarantine, while the cargo volume per crewmember is much higher than with other forms of transport.
alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard'

alias pbpaste='xclip -selection clipboard -o'
That’s a really odd way to put “I like to emote orthogonally to idiomatic vernacular”
Yes and we get to watch on TikTok, Reels and YouTube legions of Oculus users falling to punching their family members in the face while playing. The recent one with grandma https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=690843345659240

All these videos though could be a good thing for Meta and Oculus's adoption..there were tons of other videos with the Nintendo Wii with users throwing their controllers and breaking things.
Firefox as well, not just the adtech browser.

It’s what I usually use to post these, but this time I was at my parents and remembered that I had seen this before, so I used the search ;)
Ideally, we would prove the theorem that any proof the software produces must be correct.
In other words, "probabilistic associations” are a poor substitute for logic and reason. They are not inherently reliable nor consistent.

Bottom line: Real, reliable, "full self driving" automobiles are unlikely to be achieved using current approaches. About the best that can be expected is a marketing gimmick that is sure to cause lots of accidents.
No but using patreon and paying monthly on the stated expectation that it would be released in 6 months is a bit annoying, no?
Why are special characters bad practice? Wouldn't they increase the entropy better than numbers?
I hate it when I do that, look at the script and realize that the script itself curl | bash other scripts.

Unless there are other sane ways to install the project, I just put in on my blacklist and ignore it.
This is what I was hoping for - and of course there would be a cat option but it would simply return “not implemented” for everything.
Ask HN: Would you like to see YouTube shorts without trash videos?
> Single layer cloth masks do nothing.

Really? If an infected person standing in front of you in a crowded room sneezes, you believe the risks would be unaffected by whether or not they were wearing a cloth mask? Whether their sneeze were blocked or droplets of spittle and mucus went spewing throughout the room, your exposure and that of people standing in distant parts of the room would be identical?

In general I hate the “citation needed” forum response, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
And there are loopholes to get around it. A simple example is when other services are automatically enabled in Gmail like "personalisation", "spam detection", "priority inbox" or sorting promotional emails. All of these require scanning emails and harvesting keywords from it, for which you implicitly give permission. All this data also goes into the personal profile that Google creates for you. The ads are then served from your personal profile. So legally Google is not serving ads after "scanning your email". Why do you think you have to agree to separate terms and conditions privacy policies - Google, Gmail, Photo etc.? (This is not unique to Google. Apple also uses similar tactics - every Apple app now tells you that your data will be used for personalised ads. Services within that will have its own data collection policies "to improve service". Every bullshit "privacy" protection needs you to allow even more invasive data collection to "protect" you. And everything is "opt-in" by default (and praise the lord if you can find an "opt-out" settings at all).
How would this compare to Pypy?

I didn't think Pypy uses LLVM so I wonder who produced better code.

That said, they're targeted at different audiences. I feel Numba is targeted at data science and machine learning and even AI.

I feel a large portion of using or programming a computer is structural and not the actual work of adding numbers together. Very little of the code generated does the useful part a computer does: addition. The rest is control flow management and data placement! It's all preparation for the code to do an addition. The hard part is putting together the structure for the computer to do things that are useful.

So we invented methods, variables, classes, functions, closures, expressions to create that structure easier.

I thought about creating a language which tries to eliminate the structure that most programs accumulate and focus on the critical addition or calculation and let the computer do the arrangement. A JIT compiler for structure.
> increasing the complexity of the implementation because the C ABI has so many edge cases.

Every language speaks C, and whether we like it or not every new language will continue to speak C for the foreseeable (for-C-able?) future. This cost is already baked in, so you might as well leverage it to reduce the cost of a second ABI by building it on top of the ABI you're already guaranteed to support.
If anything, the geopolitical issues surrounding Europes supply of fossil fuels makes the case for aggressively accelerating the adoption of green tech. If not for the environments sake, then for the sake of not having to depend on ruthless despots to keep the lights on in winter.

There is no climate emergency - They should visit the fire damaged lands of Australia and then survey the floods in Pakistan.
Forestry is shutting down and pushing people to Tina instead. I guess it is the same company? I don't really know.
Extreme simplicity. This is the installation equivalent to updating your website by scp-ing in a new index.html.
I used Magic throughout, on and off for several years. They are on getmagic.com now.

They went from high quality concierge service, to low quality virtual assistant work, in a gradual shift.

Now they're essentially reselling upwork/fiverr services, as when you ask for something they will likely end up using this. It's down to a very small amount of use cases, frankly, as their service is no longer high quality. They also pulled some fast ones on me throughout that time; for example, as they lowered their prices, they conveniently grandfathered me into the older, higher price while still lowering the quality of their service.

Even when using them successfully, they seem to spend ages doing the most inane, basic things and over-bill for it.

Nowadays I use Chatterboss (https://chatterboss.com/). Magic's only useful feature is that it's humans available 24/7; but on Chatterboss the assistants know you and your business inside and out at least. Though I have my own share of issues with CB too (such as their super weird pricing which feels like buying a car and being sold twenty options which aren't so optional).

To be honest, this is why I'm excited about ChatGPT. The past month, I've used ChatGPT for many tasks I would have previously handed out the same way (in the same english!) to a virtual assistant. And ChatGPT just gave... better results, and gave them almost instantly.
Musk is the one who controls what is being released, so he’s shaping the entire narrative. This has been the case since the first of the so-called Twitter Files, which focused on Twitter responding to requests from the Biden campaign to remove Tweets. The context Musk had but didn’t release was that the tweets in question were nude photographs. Obviously that context changes the narrative considerably.

The other issue from that initial post was that requests from the actual government at the time, the Trump administration, were completely glossed over.

What’s the most telling is that despite having access to the information that would prove the strong claims surrounding these Files (government censorship! FBI paying Twitter! Twitter tilted for Democrats!), Musk withholds that information and instead tries to prove his case through innuendo and suggestion. Like you said, the meat is the e-mails. So why are we only getting to see a portion of them filtered through narrative spinning journalists? To me that says the strong information that would prove the Files doesn’t exist at all, so the strong claims of the Files are likely false.
Office 365 is not bad and very cheap.
I think an Alexa-specific subscription for non-Prime members would be viable. It always seemed strange to me that they combine the free shipping with a streaming video service in one bundle. It wouldn't make it any stranger to bundle Alexa service in there too.
I couldn’t agree more. In some cases the anti-vax movement is simply being used as a tool for power.
I stick with regular vi for a very long time because of this. I was a systems consultant way back when and I'd have to work on several variants of unix that had a mich-too-long lag time on getting vim ports. Iirc, sparc was the unix that took the longest in getting a gnu tools pipeline, so once they had vim and I could reasonably expect most of my customers could install it, I switched.

I now do a pretty standard config (mostly use the vim plugin in VSCode since I'm a software dev nowadays).