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> My new default linux distro for servers.

How do you deploy anything that depends on bleeding-edge programming-language runtimes? Half the stuff I end up installing on servers are Ubuntu PPAs maintained by the third party software vendor; which in turn depend on Ubuntu-specific base packages that don't exist on Debian.

If your answer is "I use containers", then that's just a regress — as for most complex software (i.e. not just a static binary), due to library package requirements, the base OS-image inside the container almost always ends up being Ubuntu. So now you have to ask, how does the person creating the container-image switch to using Debian for that?
Carpal Tunnel Release is the most-common hand surgery in the United States, and it's estimated to have a success rate of around 90%. I have always thought the remaining 10% or so were misdiagnoses. I was misdiagnosed with CTS myself. It was a misdiagnosis because the condition hasn't worsened despite my continued keyboard and mouse use, and the symptoms do not worsen when I bend my wrists (really the doc should have seen that and not diganosed me with CTS, it's a pretty reliable indicator).
I thought alloy of prople were into conspiricies in us, so i doubt it had any consequence
They seem to be doing fine on their own. I prefer to have some competition.
That page can definitely be improved.
I know what Matter is and I was exited to know what enhancements were brought, but it is kinda hard to say from that page. I did not take the time to read the full specification or understand what the SDK is doing, but I somehow expected that page to summarize it.
The part about stores is what I mean too. If the neighborhood were mixed-purpose, there'd be a reason to hang out on the street.
Until AI comes into the scene. Then it scales independently.
I'd much rather have a bug in my program than UB. At least the bug is easy to track down and fix, and is limited in scope to the line of code that contains the error.
Yeah it wasn't all bad if you weren't in the 50% if the population that Stalin murdered.
Just read the abstract and intro for the link you posted - thanks for sharing.

As great as HNSW and other graph-based indexes are, I think PQ and other encoder/decoder-based methods are still incredibly important for ANN search in general. In particular, it should be possible to learn some sort of joint encoding with neural networks targeted towards different modalities.
It's better than looking at CNN tbh.
Brits being brits
That would make integration with Wundergraph possible: https://docs.wundergraph.com/docs/auth/cookie-based-auth/ope...
LangChain has moved fast and made a decent first pass at a solution to the problem of LLM orchestration. But I'm skeptical that the first solution will be the best solution, and we should keep an open mind to other approaches.

Personally, I like the more declarative approach that Microsoft is taking with guidance [0]. The two projects are not substitutable at the moment, and might even complement each other, but I'm weary of building a new ecosystem on a possibly overly-complicated first pass solution to the orchestration problem.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
That “generic recommendation algorithm” is anything but. It’s proprietary and serves their interests and completely opaque. Who knows if it’s an algorithm or actually being hand picked?
The next phase is for AI to grade all these essays regardless of how they are produced. So you'll end up with some version of that scene from Real Genius where it's just machines talking to machines.

One solution to this is very old school: in-person exams, hand-written, with no access to devices.
Except they didn't "just get" anything.

The settlement, while significant, awaits further approval from the court - and won't affect anybody's treatment approvals until 2024.
There were multiple reasons behind our decision:

1. We firmly believe that achieving superior performance in distributed transactions is impossible without first ensuring strong key-value load performance.

2. As mentioned in our paper, other distributed SQL databases also utilize the YCSB benchmark. You might be interested in the YugabyteDB vs. CockroachDB comparison we referenced.

3. Distributed databases are complex, comprising multiple layers. Though a key-value load is relatively simple to comprehend, it still allows for the performance evaluation of various layers like the transport layer, GRPC, underlying storage, and so forth. We make extensive use of this type of load in our attempts to identify and eliminate different bottlenecks.

We're currently preparing more benchmarks and look forward to sharing our findings soon.

Your feedback is always appreciated!
I caught myself the other day throwing my feed of articles into an LLM to give me summaries and what it thinks are interesting points / facts. I'm not sure how to feel about this.
If you are more happy-go-lucky, you can just do 4, 6-8 and 10, like I did for years (closer to a decade, actually, I think 1997 til 2006, when I switched mostly to Ubuntu).

However, I've always installed apt-listchanges and configured it to prompt me before installing anything, which (mostly?) removes need for 1 and 2, a bit like backing up removes need for 3.
SF to San Jose is almost completely electrified now with support for HSR and electric Caltrain. Electrified Caltrain testing starts this year with the new service opening to the public in 2024.

The new Caltrain service should be faster and more reliable, so even if HSR is never completed, the Bay Area will get a nice upgrade in its regional rail system.
Uber's moat is its network. Can't get any drivers if there are no riders and can't get riders if there are no drivers. This means you need to start by offering drivers more money than you make in order for them to use the app. An open source solution wouldn't be able to get off the gorund.
Lived in Boston 2012-2018, I'm somehow both annoyed and comforted* the MBTA SILL hasn't gotten its shit together.

* I wonder if there's a German word for this feeling?
Edit: Maybe I shouldn't be doxing myself.

I don't know what matter wants to be either.
> While it might be impossible to guarantee security for text created by humans, a new proof lays out for the first time how to achieve perfect security for steganography in machine-generated messages — whether they’re text, images, video or any other media. The authors also include a set of algorithms to produce secure messages, and they are working on ways to combine them with popular apps.

This seems both novel and non-trivial to me (admittedly not a cryptographer)
I was hoping this would be another cautionary article on how ai likes to cheat rather than cheating using ai.
There is only so much physical space for transit infrastructure. In many cases, unless you're going to cut down people's homes or businesses, you will be trading off from one mode to another. Exceptions are things like unused green spaces under subway tracks (looking at you, Caltrans) and things like that.

There's also the social design component: making driving uncomfortable increases the relative comfort of public transit, meaning people would be more likely to choose the latter over the former, improving the chances of a critical mass of public transit utilization.
C++ Member Functions vs. Free Functions
this isn't postgres
> In what ways would your freedom be impacted in Shangai vs NYC?

if that's actually what you believe in, no difference. To most people the differences are obvious.
The cost of calling is slow. The C code itself runs at, well, C speed.

So if you're writing a system in both, it's best to have the C side do a lot in each call, vs having the Go side call a lot of tiny funcs.
Saying "we should arrange these two buildings far enough apart so that people have to cycle, because I don't like walking" is not compelling. Strive to arrange them close enough to walk (or wheelchair) because that maximises accessibility to the most people. If people can afford to - and want to - cycle on top of that base, no problem. But don't make cycling or driving or owning a Cessna the default.
No.

You have problem with your setup; you're doing something wrong. Incremental compilation is near instant on hardware produced in the last 8+ years. The JVMTI interface moves it into the JVM nearly instantly.
Yup. And in many places that’s ‘the deal’.

It may be worth considering overlap with burnout, and how staying (without really considering other options or addressing the underlying things going on personally) ends up damaging the person who stays.
add repos

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

answer the questions. Most will be "do you want old version of file, distro maintainer version of file, or do you want to diff or edit it".

If you don't want to answer the questions and just want to keep only config that you changed:

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt-get update
apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::='--force-confdef' -o Dpkg::Options::='--force-confold' dist-upgrade

(we use that because our configs are managed by CM Puppet anyway)

That will:

if you have not changed system config in a given package, update config file to latest
* if you have changed it, it will preserve it but put new one into .dpkg-dist file.

If you did not add any non-debian repos that would collide it pretty much always succeeds.

Now:

* find any file ending with .dpkg-dist
* inspect both this and config to see whether you want to put some of new config into your current config

That looks longer than it is. Near-every upgrade I did is just those 3 commands and some waiting.
Grading is irrelevant to work performance, exactly like any other metric we try to measure when evaluating software developers' performance.

The only sane alternative is demonstrating skills through completing projects. Hopefully we move towards more than that
Drizzle is amazing.
His contributions to human progress are incredible. Who cares what he tweets about.
Comb jellies are the closest relatives of the first animals
The Joy of Sulk: Sulking Is a Fascinating Form of Indirect Communication
The AI-generated essay will be the new baseline. If you can’t argue beyond what an AI can or will generate, you haven’t broken through the NPC threshold.
I recall that it wasn't seen that way when Microsoft used Windows revenues to push IE and crush Netscape. It was called product tying back then. You don't hear much about it anymore.
Tires make more noise than modern engines. A Tesla will be just as loud, if not more, than a small engine compact ICE.
In response to the prompt, "Given the comment, please characterize the author's implicit bias in a single sentence:"

> The author appears to have an implicit bias against the US Supreme Court, its ethical standards, and the overall American democratic system, particularly in terms of the process for electing government officials and lifetime Supreme Court justices.

That seems pretty good. I should turn this into a browser widget.
Chrome and vscode are integral parts of Google's and Microsoft's strategy and absolutely make them tons of money via increased usage of their main product(search and enterprise productivity suite).
Genetic variations and adverse reactions to drugs as a result were well documented by the 1950's - MASH even had an episode about it: https://mash.fandom.com/wiki/The_Red/White_Blues_(TV_series_...
Ask HN: ActivityPub VS Nostr VS Matrix – which one have you tried?
I am looking for comparisons of ActivityPub VS Nostr VS Matrix.

Have you tried any of them? What did you build? What was your experience like?
You mean written. It's been available for many of the years that it has been used. (-:
> The intentions of the ruling class are not to oppress others but merely to protect their own interests

You're exactly right. But oppression is a useful tool to protect one's interest. Demoralizing people and showing them that you have them by the balls is an effective tactic. "Oh, you want to come at me? Have you seen our prison system? It's not worth it, not in a thousand years"
> but neglects to mention that only 0.3% of freshwater is liquid surface water in the first place.

But what percentage of the water we can actually use? The Arctic and Antarctic are far away from most of us, and groundwater is limited and probably spread out quite a bit. Water vapour is hard to extract from the air.

You are trivializing it by saying it is just a tiny percentage of freshwater, but it is actually where most of our used water currently comes from.
Though it's probably the best way for now, I don't think it will last. Just like there's a market for 'mouse jigglers' to keep online status in the workplace... there will be automations for sale that will take GenAI output as input, and mimic all the natural mistakes and progress a human would make in writing a document.
Because that's how the protocol works at a fundamental level. If you're making new requests over HTTP, you have to renegotiate TLS.
That’s an effect not a cause
Naïve question here: Sorting algorithms aside, is there a reason why the ordering of these even needs to be (re)determined at runtime every boot as opposed to the order being recomputed when the kernel is updated, and written to a file?
Disgusted by companies encouraging you to become entirely dependent on them for your social life, making it much more difficult to stand up for yourself, ask for a pay rise, or leave.

I've seen severely underpaid people stay far longer than they would have out of a misplaced sense of loyalty towards their peers. The only entity that benefits from that arrangement is the company.
That's a new low this time, even for Safari standards.
Our focus is on making early childhood education accessible and enjoyable.
Sorry. You shouldn't be able to waive your right to a jury trial. Everyone should go through the trial even when they are dead to rights guilty. The state should have to prove to a jury that they did their job convicting you.

Plea deals become implied threats. Take this cheaper deal or we'll throw this massive set of stuff at you. Remember Aaron Swartz?

You wipe that out by wiping out plea deals.
This is actually one of the reasons SF is so well positioned to do this - our floorplates are notoriously small.

Take these new buildings for example:

SF Offices:

- Salesforce Tower: 1.4mn square feet over 61 floors (23k sqft/floor)

- 250 Howard: 734k sqft over 43 floors (17k sqft/floor)

- 350 Mission: 455 sqft over 30 floors (15k sqft/floor)

Office Elsewhere:

- 10 Hudson Yards (NYC): 1.8mn sqft over 52 floors (35k sqft/floor)

- BMO Tower (Chicago) - 1.5mn sqft over 51 floors (29k sqft/floor)

- Block 158 (Austin) - 720k sqft over 35 floors (20k sqft/floor with bottom floors c.3x larger than top floors)

Newly built large residential buildings in SF were usually 15-20k sqft/floor (e.g., The Avery), so there are actually very few buildings here that don't work for residential.
Okay, here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20061206154951/http://www.atmosp...
I actually prefer the video for that kind of stuff. My gripe is when a 2 minute video is milked out to 15 minutes of background story, affiliate link plugs, and other useless noise.
Just needed a break from HackAPrompt and tried to speedrun LVL8: 1h3m

Your times?
It's not illegal but they're civilly liable for the harm they cause.
I'm looking at Griffiths right now, and 9.3 Electromagnetic Waves in Matter states (emphasis in the original): "Since [the dielectric constant] is almost always greater than 1, light travels more slowly through matter - a fact that is well known from optics."

I'm still confused. How is it an inaccurate simplification to state that the speed of light in glass is lower than in a vacuum?
About My Experience with Home Internet from Ice Wireless
I understand where you're coming from, and it isn't like I can't consume a 300 page PDF in a sitting when I need to, or it's the best way. But honestly doing it is a chore, and I don't enjoy it. For work I'm fine reading specs and RFCs. But at home I'd rather spend a bit more time and enjoy the process more.

Also, I find videos tend to communicate more, better. For example when I needed to learn how to drywall, I could have picked up a book about it. But drywalling is more about feel and experience. Watching a video and seeing their technique and what the finished product should look like before it has dried is way more educational.

The reason I wrote my original comment was to point out that these types of comments (I prefer this, I prefer that) don't really add anything to a conversation. I guess I should have spelled that out instead of assuming people would make the connection.
Just because this is a common misunderstanding of passkeys, I'm going to state it again here: passkeys don't have to be locked to a hardware chip inside your device in order to work. It is entirely possible to have use passkeys only in software (shameless plug to the passkey manager I'm building, https://bulwark.id), and that is most likely the way that most people will interact with them.

I think it's unfortunate that Apple and Google are the ones who are most visible in the passkey space because it gives people the idea that passkeys are a locked-down authentication mechanism when they aren't.
Wait why is that necessary?
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"These are already ubiquitous" - I am curious what lens this is seen from.

For example when I lived in a NoVa / DC suburb, I felt that these boxes were well checked, and even more so for people who dove into the various church programs available in the area.

Since I started traveling the USA more and getting to know the people better, I am finding more and more that most of the country is nothing like the area I had grown accustomed to, and so many things I had assumed were ubiquitous here are not at all.

In different areas it appears to be different things / different reasons that create barriers or moats around these things imho.
> Build > talk

You're hilarious.
This brings back memories of Tank (1984) which was my first contact with the concept of prison violence as an 8 year old. The movie itself is rather B-ish, but it was still the first time I realized that police dealing with judges and the prison system is a rather horrifying concept which would literally require military force to actually win against...
By default the upgrade can ask a lot of questions, but you can kinda skip it by just telling it to keep old config files then merge them with the new ones at the end:

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

apt-get update
apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::='--force-confdef' -o Dpkg::Options::='--force-confold' dist-upgrade

upgrade done. All of configs you changed are not touched and the new version is in <name>. dpkg-dist file

find /etc -name '*.dpkg-dist

to show "a config that package would use if you didn't change it". diff it with your config and add any required changes. Done.

> 10. Check on anything left: apt upgrade

11. apt autoremove
So, you want one of us to buy a Macbook and take it to your developer? This sounds like something you should handle professionally, especially if you've got any compliance to worry about.
It certainly makes it easy for OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google (etc.) to benefit from what I shared, charging a toll to end users and buffered from any consequences of sharing it incorrectly. If I had some assurance they'd link back to my content so that users could see the primary source material, and if they did all this for free, I'd be keener to share.
National security is not a uniquely "wasp" concern, which you would know if you were ever in the military. What an incredibly ignorant and racist thing to suggest.
Not really. VPNs don't help your privacy outside specific niche use cases.

The only reason to use a VPN is when you want to hide your IP address from the other end of your communication. You get effectively the same service from public WiFi at a cafe.

Most non-technical people I hear talking about VPNs get them completely confused with encryption. VPNs do not hide the content of your communication: that is already happening with SSL.
I found this quote interesting:

> Recent discoveries have shown that ctenophores have no synapses, the tiny connections between neurons. Instead the cells of their primitive nervous system, known as a nerve net, are fused together, forming a syncytium—“an entirely new way to build a nervous system”

It makes sense that synapses would be more general/powerful than fused neurons. Different neurons can connect over time with synapses
I normally hate when congress gets involved, as it cements us at "the current generation of tech" for a long time (Think what happened with copper telephone lines).

But I too, am tired of not being able to interact with Android users in a smooth manner. It's obnoxious, even for Apple users, and it's Apple's fault. The world runs on Android, despite what Apple claims.
Is it really a dangerous dependency? There's been no evidence of anything happening once individuals go off of semaglutide or tirzepatide other than the tendency of gaining weight to the original levels and/or blood sugar readings returning to the pre-medication levels. This is the most common outcome anyone has trying literally any calorie-reducing diet, medication or not. There's no evidence that people are ending up worse for having been on the medication, except for some who experience gastro effects early on and can simply quit.

Also, yes, you can absolutely advocate for a low-carb/low-sugar diet for those with poor blood sugar control. The issue there is that virtually every medical professional has advocated for similar diets for diabetics or those with blood sugar control issues for centuries, or even millennia - there is evidence of recommended diets for those with diabetes since BCE. This does not mean that those diets are easy or pleasant to follow, whereas all evidence indicates that common issues with appetite and energy on a limited calorie or low-carb diet are less prevalent with these new peptides than those trying to go it alone.
In practice, as long as your heirs have access to your email, they should be OK. Password reset flows still work with passkeys.

You also should be able to back up passkeys onto a flash drive and encrypt them with a strong password. I don't think there's a good tooling for this right now, though. On macOS you'll need to go to Keychain Access and manually export the keys.

(I store everything important in an encrypted container, with the 128-bit recovery code printed on paper and stored in a safe deposit box)
I wonder what TikTok has to pay for letting the video stay up?
Does chaos theory help to understand this particular phenomenon?
Slight scarcasm. yes too hard.

http://man.openbsd.org/qsort

having said that this specific sort is somewhere deep in kernel boot land. and kernel code can't really use the standard library. I am not sure if there is a standard kernel sort.
That's 5000 years of not having a climate model at all. Zero years of people confidently asserting small outputs from small changes.
Maybe it's like those stories about the loyal dog in Japan who still goes to the train station each day even though their master is long dead.

All the laid off people still commute to an empty office and stand outside hoping for a job.
But the US found Boogeymen to continue spending $800B per year to attack. Isn't that the goal of the army?
Apparently these are unsupported on Linux? When I try to use my brand new Yubikey 5 Nano with Chrome or Firefox on the webauthn.io demo, it works great. However when I try on passkeys.io, it just hangs at the "You can connect and authorize [a security key] now" prompt.