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New doesn't mean better. For many people the change is "I got used to X then I need to get used to Y".

While there being zero benefit in using Y over X, just a cost to change.

Case in point (for me, YMMV of course): For what I use (start a machine, run a single app and maybe a browser or two) there have been zero improvement in windows UI for last 2 decades. It's just moving shit around with occasionally wasting some more space coz tablet users need to click things and keeping separate theme for them is impossible to do for trillion dollar corporation.

And I don't even use it for a living, just occasional gaming and app that needs windows.

> Interestingly a lot of IT folks hate change even more then other people. Just ask around how many would love to have a windows 11 that looks like windows 2000. There is just no other explanation for it.

Not "hate change". Improvements are welcome. Change for change's sake is not. If you're not well versed in windows quirks you might think that's just grumpy people getting grumpy but we got from one control panel for a thing to old panel with some features, new panel with some other features, missing the features of old panel, coz microsoft couldn't be fucking arsed to migrate all of it properly when they changed the UI. Or some stuff was hid in registry somewhere.

It's akin to cars deciding that climate controls need to be on touchscreen now, behind some menu. It's not "new, better", it's "new, worse".

To reiterate: it is not aversion to new, it is aversion to designer being fucking bored and changing stuff that worked fine into something else for no good reason.
> but if every site had their own in-house tool

Costs money to maintain and build correctly, which naturally leads to buying existing solutions.
In several European countries this is a trick to get around inheritance tax so, if you die several years after the gift, it's taxed as per inheritance.
They're big enough that it shouldn't help. Dictionaries are useful when you're compressing tiny files such that the overhead of the compressor learning the statistics from the input is significant. Basically you hope to save a fraction of the size of the dictionary from each file. From a 2GB file that's negligible. From a 1000 byte file it could be gigantic.
> his fair share of Id's success

That's a pretty prejudicial way to put it - he was a junior dev who got fired, how much of "Id's success" do you think he was entitled to?
We have one of those Nespressos at work, they are not bad at all. Wouldn't buy one for myself, but I'll drink the free stuff.
Using a custom dictionary works well if you want to compress single consensus sequences (30kbp), say before putting them into an sqlite db. Then you can get each sequence down to ~200 bytes.
If you compress a large dataset, there's no point in using a custom dictionary, the auto-embedded one works just fine.
To me, visually and functionally, the UIs are the same.

But the frame rate and performances of the new UI is much slower.
There's of course In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfpn3wHoNGA

Plenty of other stuff if you look for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKVJt39mFUA&list=OLAK5uy_mTE...

Not to mention the tons and tons of secular Classical music, particular from the Baroque era like Händel's organ concertos.
I am a big advocate for and user of this pattern with Make.

However there is one non-trivial downside with (GNU) Make, and that is the non-visibility of env vars set with `export` when running `make -n`. That is, if your Makefile looks like this:

export FOOBAR=123

.PHONY: do-it
do-it:
./scripts/do-it

Then `make -n do-it` will not show the exported FOOBAR variable. This makes it somewhat more difficult to audit or inspect with `make -n`.

The output from `make -np` is incredibly verbose and isn't easy to filter with standard CLI tools, which makes this doubly frustrating. You basically need to write an AWK/Perl/Python program to parse it. If there was one feature I'd pay good money to add to a new version of GNU Make, it's an option to emit more-easily machine-readable output from `make -p`, or to ship a script in the GNU Make package that parses it into something standard like JSON or XML.
Because `tar -czvf` is muscle memory at this point for many.
To those who don't know.. file formats in genetics is already a big mess.
I've had favorable circumstances (parents that did ok, REALLY cheap rent in an expensive city, a regular job) and I've been able to have the same policy, every time my attitude is I will loan money that I could without being too broken up about it set on fire then and there and never with any explicit expectation of good use. if it's returned (some have, some havent been able to) it's a bonus.

now this is a SMALL amount compared to most people but I have friends who have had a really rough time financially.
> The way they collect and dispose of the waste has changed dramatically over time

And?

The user interface of every toilet on the planet (except perhaps Japan) is similar enough that anyone from any other country could use one and this has been the case for the better part of 100 years.

Despite what public bathrooms might tell you about peoples abilities to use a toilet. The UX is at least the same.
I was just wondering that, is the approach free, could Syncthing utilize it?
It looks like the attack is login based since that's where your captcha is. Allow a single captcha-free attempt to login successfully from a /24. If the login fails then put the /24 on captcha for X hours. That way most login attempts that are legit won't see the captcha. Also, HN crowd I think prefers hcaptcha.

Lastly, what I would do is have users pick a login image, in addition to the password login, they have to pick a correct image in addition to password.So it would still be the process I suggested except a failed login is allowed one time so long as the correct login image is selected. Also, the login images will be slow to load during times of attack on purpose to identify clients that are guessing before the image is served and to slow down their attack. I would also maintain a list of IP+UA that have repeatedly logged in succesfully to exempt or prioritize them depending on the attack.
This being Hacker News, you could consider Knuth's approach: have one built for your home. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html
>Thousands to tens of thousands died from the tsunami that caused it.

19,759 according to the sources cited by the wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
Same for me quality is #1
Most places don't do much vetting of your background until you're hired. At which point it can be a lot of work to offer to someone else, especially if it's been more than a few days.
Most environmentalists are Russian?
> It seems you have been lucky enough to be living a sheltered life, without any acquaintance having tried to chat you up to their advantage.

I'm sorry good sir or madam, I stopped reading here.

In my personal life experience with abusive people, I find it makes me want to be more in favor of unconditional help for others, not less. Though I have experienced the urge to want to help people less, which you seem stuck in, and I was formerly stuck. I think it's a stress response. It creates a lot of anxiety to keep sizing people up for how they're going to screw you, instead of just accepting them and treating them well. (Yes, there is a difference between treating them well and letting them abuse you.)
And yet still no good (or even decent) solution for how to handle the waste?
I’d say a good majority of the jailbreak community is still on iOS 14. Although XinaA15 and *ra1n allow people to jailbreak (on limited versions for the former) iOS 15, fakeroot (and more-so XinaA15’s jankyness) mean that if you’re looking for a stable, compatible jailbreak, iOS 14.x is the way to go.
Or, we should not assume that Google's stance is correct, that sr.ht is expected to explain themselves. We should ask why is Google continuing on that path of DOSing upstream servers by default, not willing to use standards for properly using network resources, expecting all of them to do all the work.

EDIT: Moreover, sr.ht doing a workaround only for sr.ht, and lubar doing a workaround for lubar, etc... is not what Free Software is about. The point is that we're supposed to act as a community, for the betterment of the collective. Individualism is not a solution.
Amazon does not look the same for all these years. I remember having a different amazon page on nearly every refresh, with different checkout flows and different buttons styling/location.

Even AWS console goes through changes.
They are being used by Waymo for continuous QA. Basically just checking their ML is still working well.
The customer wins by being able to compare prices. The developer can no longer make lowball offers and expect the locked in customer to write blank checks when poorly written code blows up.
What time did the storm roll in?
Yeah that's exactly the issue. A lot of tools are written once and rarely updated, they're considered "done". And they only support gz out of the box because they were written 10 years ago.
Companies I've been in would call that out as technical leadership track, typically architect and above, but sometimes principal.
Do you know of the cooperative company Mondragon (Spain, Basques) and the autonomous zone Rojava in Syria?
You may get inspiration from them, they figured already out what works and what doesn't.
I'm not that sure. At least not in the short term. When people exit tether they'll mostly exit into other cryptos and this will generate demand vastly exceeding the supply.
> Next, Vancian magic is by far the least interesting magic and worst for basically any story. Players must make a blind choice and then get either a cake walk or extreme punishment based on that choice. It causes a kind of "when you are a hammer" issue as well. It also doesn't jive with what most people expect of magic.

has anyone done any sort of writeup about the seemingly enduring legacy of D&D's Vancian magic system? I've only played a bit of D&D myself (4E & 5E) and some video games (based on 3.5E) but I always thought the magic system was just so weird… in a kind of interesting way, sure, but still really weird. I'm inclined to completely agree with you… yet, this system has endured for decades, and while some may come up with homebrew alterations/replacements for it, it is still totally the default that new players/DMs engage with, and in this regard it seems to be doing okay? somehow?
When used as an intensifier heck, hell, and equivalents are fine. They lose the negative connotation as intensifiers. At least IMO.
Prop it up with a small stick and put some cracked walnuts below to catch mice with it.
Imagine a 1 lb steak contains N milligrams of of iron. After eating you'd absorb 0.2N milligrams. In 1 lb of spinach, there would be 2.5N milligrams of iron, and you'd absorb 6%, meaning you'd absorb (2.5 * 0.06)N milligrams, i.e. 0.15N milligrams. So clearly you need to eat more spinach to get the same amount of iron in the worst case. So you need to eat 33% more spinach in this case to get the same amount of iron. But some places list absorption of non-heme iron as low as 2%.
As someone who helped build a fastq data processing flow for a genetics company during the sequencing price drop era, iirc we had issues with data corruption with some of the other formats in tests. Funny to think, hey, I got my first taste of very large data management because of this!
I have heard non-fiction authors comment on this. It is because there is no market for a pamphlet or novella length work. In science, self help and business people often write influential essays or academic papers. It may make sense to print them because want them as a reference, and the author can expand their ideas. But the problem is that in general they don't need to be ~250 pages.
Yes, I've mentioned that solution. It isn't really "FreeBSD support wireless" if I have to run a VM for it, is it?
The content area looks good enough, probably better than before.

But what is the point of having a single menu with a huge nested menu tree and keeping the major part of the title bar empty? If I enable the separate menu bar, the menu bar and project bar take as much space as both bars plus the tabs did previously. This feels like trying to be stylish at the sacrifice of usability.
Here I clearly prefer the old UI.
Can someone in the physics community give us the consensus summary of whether this is serious/real/non-BS? Seems like this would be an absolutely earth-shattering theory result (especially since they claim it's verifiable with a feasible experiment), which seems hard to judge from outside based on the paper itself. Are people buying this, or are there questions?
its depend on what domain you are interested in. for some domain progress is so fast books are lagging 10 years behind so you need to read article (also its tough to find good article).
You're free to march on with your weird bias. The rest of us can benefit.
So of course I had to try it.

So I asked it about what Windows Local Privilege Escalation is.

It ended up mentioning rootkits. so I asked it what a rootkit looks like.

It showed me a simple version then I asked it

"could a rootkit avoid being detected by antivirus software"

but it got shut down from overload. Not sure if it would have gotten any further or not.
Sure, I'm not suggesting "do nothing", I elaborate on what I'm suggesting in another reply below, re: backoff/retry strategies. I think online community management software needs features to better handle defectors and other non-constructive interactions, and not just focus on features that facilitate or ease communication. Sometimes you don't want to increase communication speed, sometimes you want back pressure to slow things down.
Tres commas club
Not sure if you're laughing at how cheap or expensive it is. Your local independent coffee shop might be sporting a five figure espresso machine. Equipment gets expensive when it needs to run >8 hours straight
We're talking primarily about people who don't pay their debts here.

There's no loss to my life if these people remove themselves from it.

They're thieves in disguise, nothing more. No value is lost if they leave.

And in fact, because money is stored time, my life becomes MORE if they leave, because I lose less of the time of my life to them.
They are FASTQ files, so they are the reads that came off the sequencer- plus metadata and error scores- represented as ASCII A, T, G, C.

This isn't a diff from a reference genome, it's a ton of reads (files often 30+GB). It's really only useful as an archive format, and even then, it's a pretty bad one for many reasons.

An interesting thing about the file format is that it's three lines in a row each with different coding properties, so if you break the data into three streams and encode each one on its own, the overall compression is somewhat better, because the dictionary and lookback don't have to accomodate the metadata, DNA, and error lines together, giving better dictionary and lookback hit rates.

These formats are terrible for downstream analysis: they are typically not indexed or sorted in a useful way, so it's common to convert them to other formats (BAM, CRAM), which are optimized for compressing DNA data (and likely exceed zstd in some circumstances).
I had to add compression into Mermaid live editor's URL state as the length limit was exceeded with big diagrams.

Wrote this SerDe which can be extended with better algorithms in the future. https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-live-editor/blob/devel...

Eg: https://mermaid.live/edit#pako:eNo9kUGTnCAQhf8K1adNlesoqKiHV...
These snippets can be used to reconstructing the whole genome sequence but it's done statistically so they're not 100% confident. Some sections have more coverage than others. You want to keep the raw reads around just in case.

Longer higher quality reads have been developed and for them less coverage will be needed and this will produce smaller files with higher degrees of confidence.
Composting toilets most definitely are completely different. You are explicitly not supposed to mix liquid and solid waste. Bidets are different and work differently. Squat toilets almost always result in issues because people don't know how to stand above them. Pit toilet lids are almost always kept open, resulting in smells lingering. I gave those examples for a reason. They all have specific quirks and differences in use.

Only the most basic of user interaction is there, and in the case of squat toilets even that isn't there.

Just admit you chose a shit example.
If taxpayer A gifts taxpayer B $1M today, taxpayer B owes $0 in taxes to the US federal government. Taxpayer A also owes $0, assuming that is all they have gifted in their life. But they do have to file a form with the IRS tabulating the total they have gifted, minus the annual exclusion ($17k).

Neither taxpayer A nor taxpayer B have a federal tax liability for gifting more than the annual exclusion amount.

So I do not see how the gift tax, which would implicitly involve a tax liability for the gift, has a limit of $17k.

Am I incorrect?
you can omit the z entirely. [I misread- only applies on un-tar]
I have not seen mentioned so far in this thread the following book, which I can't recommend more highly:

Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory To Algorithms – Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Cheap...
Can't "the rest of us" make other good compression formats?
Well, in my case I consider myself a "super motivated highly skilled developer" and I was feeling eager to help the project along ... and it seems we started out on the wrong foot for that to ever happen, which may (or may not) have worked out differently with a different project organization structure.

aliqot is clearly too optimistic, but your argument here might be a bit too pessimistic.

That said, my own experience with offering open source projects was also pretty miserable, due to hidden agendas and corporate takeover.
I love Slipways but I have to finish the corrections to my thesis so I'm staying well away :P

Thanks for a great game!
I would normally judge you, but I've definitely gone a similar route - our office had a Keurig machine (as a gift from some vendor) and a supply of crappy K-cups that no one else wanted.

And all I needed was a caffeine boost before going to the gym. So all the things just aligned for me to use both the machine and the (frankly terrible) coffee it made.

Can't beat free. Even if it is terrible quality. But in the future, I would probably just go with a 150mg caffeine pill, simply because it produces less plastic waste (I hope?)
Yeah, this smells like a tactic that will eventually get shut down for being in bad faith
Can you provide any source for supporting that claim?
> None of these "habitable" planets is really plausibly habitable.

They can plausibly have life, though, but it may not get anywhere near as far as life on Earth has gotten. That is still scientifically interesting.
> the infinite board solves piece randomization, because you can have a "junkyard" where you dump pieces until you get the one you want. it also solves the time pressure, because blocks spawned at row inifinity will never reach the canvas until you hard-drop them. finally, it prevents rows from clearing because they have infinite width (so the game won't interfere with your construction).

Not to mention that you need unbounded memory anyway.
I am no cheering fan, for sure, but I think it's disingenuous to say PGP is one of the least important systems on the internet. Debian package distribution, notably, depends rather pivotally on PGP to ensure authenticity. Keybase uses PGP as it's root trust mechanism. There are plenty of email services that use PGP to secure messages. I've even come across some recent (as in the last few years) startups using PGP to implement their internal or application-level trust relationships (run by quite sane and well adjusted individuals nonetheless). I worked at a Unicorn in the last 10 years that implemented secret storage and distribution using GPG tooling. In fact, recently and close to home for me, we implemented some application level key exchanges and the security person we consulted with for a 2nd set of eyes actually said (paraphrasing), "I don't like this thing it's custom but if you use ElGamal I'd be more comfortable because at least it's well understood."

Of course these are all things that can and probably should be replaced by something more palatable. So why haven't they?

If it's not obvious, my argument is neither for nor against PGP, really. It's that I'm tired of hearing about how much PGP sucks without also hearing about the solution. I think the burden is on the people wishing to eradicate it to muster up the blesséd alternative and shepherd it into the vernacular.
This makes me wonder whether we could create a standard monologue that someone could record, which provides a complete set of training data for that individual. Something about a quick brown fox and a lazy dog would be apropos here, but I suspect the length would be more Shakespearian than that simple typographic clever sentence.

I expect it will be a while until we can fully utilize that data, but I have to imagine that something could be done today to preserve my voice (while I am still in my prime). Effectively, this would be a sort of vocal cryogenics, betting that we can do something today that will allow us to take advantage of future technology.
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The Gold Coins Game (2019)
Deep learning algorithm can hear alcohol in voice
No I think that's simply because that's actually what consumers want.

The less a company makes on maintenance and repairs, the more it has to make on the initial sale, which means a higher upfront cost. People generally don't like paying a lot of money upfront, so naturally, companies will make profit in other ways.

Easy to see with smartphones. When manufacturers started to make batteries non user replaceable, did it make consumers flock to manufacturers that still offered user replaceable batteries? The answer is no, consumers have chosen, they don't care, except for a minority too small for manufacturers to need caring. There are alternatives, like the Fairphone, but it is not a mainstream device, and it is expensive for its specs, so few people buy it.

Not only it is our choice, but we are not even honest about it. We are happy to buy hard-to-repair devices, but then, we want to game the system by using regulation.

Don't get me wrong, I am in favor of the right to repair movement. But I also understand that it will go against the will of consumers by raising the prices. It is a bit like safety and the environment. We don't want cars with emission control, because they are more expensive and have more points of failure, but we are forced to buy them anyways, and it is good for all of us in the end. I think the right to repair is good for the environment and for the economy in general, so it is worth regulating.
Rollerball.
OBS Studio 29.0
High energy EM radiation is able to ionize atoms through the photoelectric effect. Cellphone radiation is unable to do this because it doesn't have enough energy. This is strictly the case because energy in these scales are quantized.
It’s probably a bit off the beaten path, but I can highly recommend Probability Theory,
The Logic of Science,
by E. T. Jaynes.

In the opening chapter Jaynes describes a hypothetical system he calls “The Robot”. He then lays out the mathematics of the “The Robot’s” thinking in detail: essentially Bayesian probability theory. This is the best summary of an ideal ML/AI system I’ve come across. It’s also very philosophically enlightening.
Indian filter coffee is even easier - all metal, no glass. But are far simpler than the once-in-a-while cleaning of that complicated coffee machine.
Decompression speed is one of zstd's biggest advantages (in its class, lz4 is obviously faster in return for worse compression ratios). Zstd decompression is generally at least factor 3 faster than gzip.