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What is the logical gate speed of a photonic quantum computer?
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Techno-feudalism? I’m curious what other systems you think could be better.
Sorry man, we are talking about advertising, not child molestation.
Sorry for the stupid question, what is the advantage of your new connection for gpu? why not oculink or pcie riser or thunderbolt?
> I see no purpose in even aiming for a retirement in US.

Welcome to the sad club. Retirement age is within sight for me and my friends, and most of my circle is not in a position to be able to retire.
They just have to make it hard/risky/expensive to keep using things they've declared deprecated, or to avoid the software they're pushing & steering. Which they've done pretty damn effectively (again, if this were all somehow accidentally, holy shit, it shouldn't have been, because, wow, it's been a highly-successful-and-effective set of business maneuvers executed over a span of years)

Doesn't matter if some hobbyists still run Gentoo with openrc and X-Window with Windowmaker and all the classic interchangeable daemons and components that Systemd replaced (and with which it is incompatible)—it matters that any commercial competitor's only realist option, short of a massive and risky investment, is offering the same things Red Hat does, but with less influence on those projects. They want it to be expensive to build a competitor that's not a Red Hat knockoff—and if that's not what they wanted, well, somehow they took a whole bunch of steps over a span of years to make it happen anyway, by accident I suppose, but the outcome's the same.
The Space Shuttle was terrible, but not because it was dangerous.

For policy purposes, killing people has a cost that can be estimated by the statistical value of a human life (especially if the people are volunteers with full knowledge of the risk.) The value of a human life is about $9 M (which comes from estimates of how much government spending is needed to save 1 life, for example by medical care, installing guard rails on roads, etc.). If there was a 2% risk of death of the seven crew on a flight, this would have added $1.26M to the expected cost of a launch. This was small compared to the actual cost of a launch.

Viewed another way: a $900 M (say) shuttle launch would be killing 100 statistical people each and every launch (in the sense that the money spent on the launch, if spent elsewhere, could avoid 100 deaths). If the results of the launch are worth that many statistical deaths, why not .14 more?
Don’t we interact via gaze and pinching every time we pick up a small object?
> than to taking a refugee boat across the Mediterranean.

A migrants boat. Most of the people crossing the Med into Europe are economic migrants but in the past decade it has become known that claiming asylum on arrival (or at least if caught) is a good strategy so many do.
You control your mind. You don't want clickbait? You don't need an extension. Control your own.
"Although without legal teeth, in practice wouldn't this become very challenging to keep enforced?"

Well, enforcement is entirely another matter. It might turn into a nightmare of whack-a-mole for Red Hat, I have no idea. I'm only saying that AIUI, Red Hat can do what they're doing and still be GPL compliant.

It may impact the clones' ability to claim "bug-for-bug" compatibility with RHEL, though. At least without making them a focal point for lawyers. But I have no idea how things will spin out from here.

"Conversely if the rest of the world mostly moved on"

This is looking like a possibility. Things are pretty fragmented now as it is with RHEL leading paid Linux, Ubuntu leading unpaid Linux, and each major cloud provider have their own Linux offerings + Ubuntu & RHEL. (Also Debian in there..)

I don't know that this is the smart move by Red Hat. It feels like a gamble to me, but it's theirs to make.
Yeah, we were late on CentOS 8, and had just put 3-4 systems and VMs into production when the Stream announcement hit, which made us stop in our tracks. We eventually accepted Rocky and started actually getting newer systems in place once 9 was out, so we just jumped to using 9 and in-place upgraded our Rocky 8 systems to 9.

We're only about a quarter migrated though, so still have a few hundred Centos 7 boxes to eventually get off of, and we'll see if that ends up being Rocky or something else.

I will note that this episode of The FOSS Pod[1] with a Debian lead actually made me think switching to Debian itself way back in the past (since we've been doing this for almost three decades now) would have been a safer path. I highly recommend it, it cleared up a few misconceptions I had as a Red Hat/CentOS user about what Debian is really attempting and why, and how that would fit with our needs. For example why their goal of pure open source licenses isn't an ideological choice, but a choice to benefit the Debian ecosystem, since the goal is to make downstream distros of Debian easy and without problem (e.g. no extra legal review needed based on licensed included).

1: https://fosspod.content.town/episodes/debian-linux-with-jona...
It's very doubtful they actually were stuck long enough to even consider that scenario.

Most likely it was lost, i.e. imploded, long ago when they initially lost comms.

They wouldn't have time to even register the event.
As a long time Debian user for 20+ years I have to say I really prefer dnf/yum over apt/dpkg now. It's significantly faster and has much less version deadlock snafus from my experience in the last 5 years. I still use and support servers from both sides and my Debian servers are often a chore to work with by comparison.
So polite it hurts. I wonder if in the future people on the internet will leave deliberately offensive posts to show that they are human.
Global sperm counts are falling. This scientist believes she knows why
Thanks for the link...
I checked out LightEdit, but it sounds like it leaves quite a lot behind :

"..and it doesn't support the usual IDE editor features such as code completion, or code navigation."

I remembered it's possible to use the Jetbrains Toolbox tool in order to generate shellscripts for command line startup. So 'ws .' when generated will do the same thing for WebStorm as 'code .'
Serotta did too when making this bike: https://www.bigshark.com/articles/serotta-road-bikes-pg318.h...
> That is a slippery slope.

It's par for the course in a country that bans paternity testing (to "protect the 'unity' of families"! ) [0]

[0] https://idtodna.com/paternity-test-in-france/
yes, albeit in beta in Element: https://element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-out-chats-with-video-ro...
That's what you say when you refer to yourself. The problem is with how that term is used by people to describe others.

And personally, I've had plenty of days when, if I didn't know better (or if I was an external observer of myself), I'd definitely say I'm too lazy to play videogames. Most commonly, this happened when, after being overwhelmed with work and responsibilities for a while, I suddenly found myself having one or more free days, like really free, completely for myself. Suddenly, all the things I wanted to do instead of working - including videogames I've been dying to play - didn't seem all that interesting anymore.

My Steam collection is full of games - good, interesting games - that I bought and then barely even played, because it turned out they only seemed fun when I was trying to force myself to focus on work, and lost all allure when I didn't have to.
No, it's exactly what I'm describing... courts generate data about you, someone (LN as an example) slurps it up. Buy a house, deed gets recorded, data gets generated and someone slurps it up.

Buy a product with a CC. All of the half dozen to dozen vendors involved in the transaction will generate data about you and sell/trade the data to other people.

Sure, LN might have some really good profiles, but there are so, so many companies doing the similar things.
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> how we (the society) justify the shared costs incurred in searching for people involved in such a reckless mission

Nobody asked me if I want to pay for it or not. So i don’t feel that the “we” is justified. But if they would have asked me i would have voted to not move a finger unless some private entity (the company or the families, or literally anyone who wants to) pays for it.

They went out of their way to do something knowingly recklesly dangerous, and the cost of any rescue attempt is enermous.
> Was also very surprised to see how slow Bcrypt is.

Though unlike all the other examples here, this one is actually intentional. If/when computers become considerably faster, the cost factor of typical bcrypt implementations will be raised so that it stays slow, to keep it difficult to throw brute-force attacks at it.
> It might be for entirely good reasons, but that doesn't make it a bit funny prima facie.

It might be funny, but your argument wasn't just that, it was that you wouldn't buy it because of this fact, which seems absurd.

They're using known good hardware to make sure the parts they do send you will work. The hardware they're putting in and taking out prior to shipping will likely not even remotely be the parts you actually use since it's BYO. They're just there to make sure that what they do ship will work once assembled.

As another commenter said, would you rather they didn't perform QA and just let the customer figure out that their mainboard is actually busted after spending time assembling it? That would be an exceptionally bad user experience.
TIL about WinCompose. Thanks!
Yeah, I don't get it either.

On a related note, folks who are thinking we'll just use Debian or SUSE or whatever other distro, don't understand what RH does. RH is one of the principal contributors to core Linux components used by all distros. Who makes some 10GbE driver work really well? RedHat. And that driver makes it's way back into the kernel sources used by all distros. So I think there's a lack of understanding of the dynamic here.

The allure of RHEL clones is that it's all been checked over by organized engineers who's job security depends on the quality of their work. I would much prefer not to rely on a couple of free-timers producing a result equivalent to what RH does.

And yet there is a huge demand from folks that simply cannot pay what RH wants. So my guess is that something new is going to come out of all of this ....
Whose speculation?
I would be surprised if the supporting vessel would have heard (were they listening?) or recognised that. Probably from the data from other hydrophones somebody will write an article on this sooner or later.

I can't imagine it was loud: vessel was tiny, and the energy will reduce at the order of 3 quite a bit at 4 km distance. I can imagine it would be detectable with the right equipment and that this equipment is installed in the Atlantic.
This occurred only a couple of days after a migrant boat sank in the Mediterranean, with probably 500 people dead. The people on the Titan signed a waiver that mentioned the risk of death three times on the first page. They knew the risk and chose to take it with informed consent.

The fact of the matter is that this entire story is way overblown by the news, and many people die of much more tragic (and not self-inflicted) causes every day. Give these people their Darwin awards, and let's move on.
I cannot comprehend. Napkin math says if you move like 50 nanometers within one second this is enough acceleration over time to make these clocks out of sync because relativity. I mean, do points on earth do not move that much by themselves if they are far enough?
Can you expand? To a layman like myself, tracking is part of communications and it seemed clear there was no tracking because they didn't know where the sub was.

What is the specific type of tracking device you're referring to? What signals does it emit? And if overall power was lost, for example, why wouldn't the tracking stop just like communications stopped?
I think their behaviour under pressure is well understood. Not a popular choice for subs, though.
Is there anything the NY Post can't try to blame on wokeness?

The objection seems to be age, not race:

> “I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational and I’m not going to inspire a 16-year-old to go pursue marine technology, but a 25-year-old, uh, you know, who’s a sub pilot or a platform operator or one of our techs can be inspirational,” said Rush.

Not an uncommon scenario at startups.
The one advantadge I can (not so) proudly say I've learned from years of digging through the mucks of the internet for various kinds of NSFW media. You don't get the info easily, no one wants to advertise it even if you wanted to. sometimes the info isn't even for free. You either spend a lot of time finding some truly backwater forums with nuggest of gold, or pay someone who's dug that deep to curate for you.

If people don't want to make the next reddit... well welcome to my world.
3. You disagree that I think it would be good to not have alcohol at company events? Odd take for someone trying to limit their intake.
It would be more like dying from a shockwave from a massive explosives blast. You're going to turn entirely to jelly. Within a few ms there will be nothing left working properly.
Social science is ridiculous. What a non-result.
IBM is a big company. They can pay one their 300,000 employees less than one average support license to replace all the work he does for them indirectly, and if he's opensourcing his software, it's not like he can stop them from using it even if he is mad.

I'm not saying this is the morally right, "best" in the long term sense, or otherwise socially optimal choice, I'm just saying it's the standard IBM choice.
The average person is buying an iPhone under a 2-3 year contract. Most aren't being bought outright.
Is it wrong to store passwords and one-time codes together?
Its relatively independent, but I don't see how fedora can be a RHEL replacement.
Ask HN: Someone stole our music and re-uploaded to streaming services
Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone else encountered this before. Basically, we recorded a couple of albums in a home studio and released it online on Soundcloud about 10 years ago. It wasn't very popular, but something we enjoyed very much. Fast forward to now and we found out that someone took that music and uploaded to multiple streaming services. What's interesting is that our YouTube videos also have a license on them saying "[Company name] on behalf [Band name]".

Is anyone aware of these things happening? How do you fight it? DMCA claims?
eBPF Verification Is Untenable
What surprised me the most is how fast grepping is. It can search more bytes from memory than iterations in a simple for loop?
I wonder how much of that came from this TS to JSDoc change Rich Harris talked about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892250

> I _would_ say that this will result in no changes that are observable to users of the framework, but that's not quite true — it will result in smaller packages (no need to ship giant sourcemaps etc), and you'll be able to e.g. debug the framework by cmd-clicking on functions you import from `svelte` and its subpackages (instead of taking you to an unhelpful type declaration, it will take you to the actual source, which you'll be able to edit right inside `node_modules` to see changes happen).
This all feels like a parody to be honest, at least previous explorers were.... exploring

Now people _pay_ to be carried on the Everest, pay for a ticket to space, pay for a ticket to the titanic, &c. There is nothing left so they fight for the crumbs, looking for the next dumbest idea on the list
I think that once the WASM-GC is standardized and shipped (and perhaps once WASM can directly talk to the DOM), JavaScript will lose some dominance. I think a lot of folks will stick with it, personally, but I'm excited that more languages will eventually feel browser-native.
Broadcast radio has been a cheap way to target everyone over a wide geographic region. With catastrophic consequences seen in the massive wars in all continents that were fueled by radio propaganda.

I much prefer living with today's polarization and people disagreeing on minor things like those you mentioned, than in the age of one-way broadcasts where there is no arguing and no other perspective at all.
It's a better story. Story of punished hubris of the rich who disregard everybody including experts.

While another refugee boat sunk is just that.
one thing that is missing from this document is that there are a limited number of line fill buffers in the L1 cache of each core, which limits the number of concurrent memory accesses that can be in flight well before anything related to channels/ranks/banks begins to matter. https://lemire.me/blog/2018/11/05/measuring-the-memory-level...
> one garnered exponentially more government attention

It wouldn't be surprising that some of those rescue ships were funded by the families of the victims, considering the size of their bank accounts.
Amazon cancels Louis Rossmann [video]
But why? What would they gain?
You think Microsoft is interested in Linux enterprise support?
Microservices with Benefits
I've used both for years. Reactivity and stores in Svelte are much simpler and elegant IMO.
Fun! In an ideal world it would be better to use ML to recognize the faces, arrows, etc. A first pass could blur them. In a real ideal world the ML would watch the video and give it better titles and thumbnails too! Sadly we live in the real world . Maybe in 2030
I suppose the linux kernel model has the benefit of having a mutual dependency so you can't really easily long-term extract value without adding value. (i.e. forking the kernel means you'll be spending a lot of time keeping up, so doing to work to upstream your stuff has a real benefit)
And in this case, the sub had systems for resurfacing even if power was lost (including automatically after a set amount of time). It's highly improbable that it was astray for days before it imploded. The only way this could have happened is if it somehow got stuck on part of the Titanic wreckage and was unable to free itself.
Also the airplane shell has to endure tension forces, as inside has greater pressure than outside, whereas the sub has to endure pressure. Some materials work well under tension but not pressure and vice-versa.
It used to take decades to create a echo chamber in a given decades and AI has cut that down in a fraction of the time!
Go to Gamestop and look at what is for sale for the XBOX ONE and it is sad. Most of the big games are on both, the exclusives for PS5 are better (… all the more so since I am a weeaboo) and XBOX some how gave up on Halo for the utterly meh Gears of War which isn’t half as entertaining as Sony’s Killzone series.

Maybe Microsoft should reconsider if it really wants to make a game console.
Imagine you're inside an empty beer can as it's being run over by a car, but from all directions at once.
I agree in general, but the wiki specifically is just another git repository that you can clone.

e.g. for a repo at mholm/myrepo

git clone https://github.com/mholm/myrepo.wiki
There is a rather large difference between a road bike and a vessel that needs to withstand the pressures of being 4000 meters underneath the ocean.
You will write a fraction of the code and your apps will be considerably lighter.
> Can you elaborate why a market cap of 2.2 billion makes SUSE not a viable alternative?

I'd always assumed the MicroFocus acquisition of SuSE had something to do with OpenStack, and when OpenStack stopped being The Big New Thing, that impacted SuSE.

Basically:

* I was on the HP OpenStack team

* HP burned through over a billion on that, and sold the product off to SuSE

* Somewhere in the mix there, MicroFocus was divested from HP. Even working there, it was hard to follow, because HP also split into HP and HPE

* As various vendors lost interest in OpenStack (Cisco, EMC, VMWare, etc), SuSE replaced their CEO who was behind the acquisition in the first place

I talked to some SuSE folks about OpenStack at one of the VMWare conferences, and they seemed confident in it's future, and then just weeks later I read that they'd discontinued the product in it's current state

The entire thing is incredibly confusing because HPE also had two versions of OpenStack. "Helion Open Stack" and "Carrier Grade OpenStack" and they were two different teams.
The difference is when Libya collapses into civil war (or 3 governments or whatever) Libyan refugees migrate to other countries that are stable.

When China, Western Europe, or the US collapses into civil war refugees from those countries do indeed migrate. The problem is other countries start collapsing as well because they were dependent on some form of trade with those regions. As a result its unlikely there will ever be a large scale exodus of people from the US. We'll all just be survivors in the wasteland at that point.
My friend, who decided to become a manager early in his career, and I had a discussion on this. He thinks that one key reason for management is due to inefficiency in communication. With AI, individuals can achieve more than they could before. What can only be done by a team of individuals with different skills can be done by a single person in the future. Hence the need for management will decrease.

He predicted, in the future, there will be a few mega companies that develop foundational technologies and millions indie or small businesses (without management) built around those technologies.

We later saw this blog post that shares the same view.

https://mazzzystar.github.io/2023/05/10/LLM-for-individual/
I really love my Framework. I love that I can hack it (I made a Yubikey adapter so I could always have it inserted: https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-a-security-key-for-the-f...), I love that I can trivially repair any component that breaks, and it feels great as well, it's very light and solid.

The only issues I have with it is battery life (though I have the battery set to charge to 70% max, which leaves a lot on the table), and the fact that Intel processors heat up very easily.

I really hope Intel and AMD get their shit together and release a processor as efficient as Apple silicon, I don't want to end up using my MacBook more than my Framework.
Source: Principal Software Engineer, 25+ YOE.

You are far smarter than you think.

Learn to get into flow, and also figure out how to get your state back faster... Once you do, it is a super power.

Simple things like leaving your editor/IDE open, create the same situation you left. I personally use music + IEMs to help me block sound and focus. -30-35 DB off the IEMs, and +70DB off my music... yeah, I don't hear anything.

I learned the editor trick recently, though I'd probably done it un-intentionally for years. I stopped, and I was wondering what the inertia I was facing was. It is only 2-3m to get setup... that's 2-3m to lose my thoughts, etc.

Good luck.
Oh yeah that’s a good one. Both Zeus and Jupiter are cognates of Dyus Pter (Sky Father) of old Indo European mythology. They just took different parts of that name.
PCIe is too physically large, Oculink is too thick and doesn't have enough pins for power, and Thunderbolt has protocol overhead and throughput limitations.
> If you say that joining a different group to fight ISIS

Like joining the Taliban ?
In the spirit of idle games, two that have really captured me are Swarm Simulator and Exponential Idle, the latter being pretty in a minimalist way.

https://www.swarmsim.com/#/

https://conicgames.github.io/exponentialidle/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/exponential-idle/id1538487382

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.conicgames...