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I don't really use conda or mamba for my own things. My interaction with these is in supporting others who need to use a package that I help develop. So, even if mamba works better (as in faster), it doesn't help me, as my goal is to make sure the package installs with what the users will have.

Knowing my audience, it's hard to get them to install anything, no matter how beneficial to them. Also, to their defense, any additional step they need to make when installing is an extra failure point, or at least adds more labor and confusion to the process most users see as tedious and uninteresting -- setting their environment.

So, unless mamba replaces conda, I still need to support conda.

Anyways. The biggest problem isn't even the speed. It's the conceptual problem. Both mamba and conda are pushing package maintainers towards very (unnecessarily) precise dependency version specification. This creates a lot of interoperability problems. Software goes "stale" very quickly. Since this is often used in scientific setting, the research reproducibility suffers a lot from this.

The blame is only partially with mamba / conda. The other bad thing that is happening in this environment is the lack of standards. Even if dependency on anything below minor version was prohibited, it would slow down the software rot, but not by much. Minor Python versions go stale after about four iterations, which is something like four years. Meaning that software that was written five years ago, if it wasn't maintained during that time is in most likelihood unusable today.

Yet another problem is the lack of organization in this environment. Enterprise Linux distributions are trying to ensure relative stability of the system they provide to the customer by testing third-party packages provided with the system together with the system. Nobody does anything comparable to it in Python world. This results in situations where installation performed from the same requirements days apart installs different packages (and of course you notice it when things start to break as a result). Even worse, when things don't immediately break, but the results of the research start to differ day on day.

In my view, Python is a bad choice for research due to how its environment is organized (mostly not organized). But, I guess, that the current policy is to sacrifice any desirable engineering qualities one might want from an environment to popularity because that allows to onboard more researches who would otherwise be stuck with MS Excel and / or Matlab. It's sad though that there needs to be a compromise at all...
How about just have multiple people draw a single frame, average it out, if it still is significantly different from the 2 prior and 2 subsequent frames, throw it out and have it drawn again?
> somehow mathematics is the one field which needs to justify its own existence

I'm convinced that justification doesn't make students more motivated anyway.

That being said, justification is needed, not for the students, but for people designing syllabus. They require arbitrage because there are so many hours in a day.
Sort of. I’ve found it’s value , currently, is not in its intended purpose to build “chains” of tools. The moment you have to do something non-standard you have to build from scratch which is more difficult with all of the abstraction involved.

Where I do find it useful is the many tools it saves me from having to build from scratch. For example I use a page scraper and an embedding service with retries are two things I use it for with the bot I built for my companies slack and discord. In theory I could see using it more in my project eventually. https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/shelby-as-a-service
Good idea. But not easily usable. The map distortion is funny and impressive but not practical. The (arbitrary) colored circles should be distorted to bring information, not the (familiar) map itself. We need the map to stay familiar so people are able to easily use this.
I still catch myself looking up at planes a good 4 decades later so I'm totally sympathetic to that. All of this is terribly fragile and single individuals of questionable mental capacity having this much power is the sort of risk that humanity should have never taken.
“Serverless” often has some upfront complexity but I greatly prefer it because once I have it running I’ve never had scaling issues or even had to think about them. To each their own and I’m sure that serverless isn’t the answer for everyone but for my projects (which are very bursty, with long periods of inactivity) is a dream.
For me it was mostly one time setup cost and once-every-2-years Debian upgrade.

unattended-upgrade does the security upgrades and I occasionally upgrade the rss reader (as it is not packaged)

mail was pretty much fire-and-forget postfix+dovecot on file config, no DB for list of accounts + some catchalls.

If I had to pay say $5 for each of those services vs pay myself to manage that it would more less come out the same, minus ability to fix any little annoyances I had directly vs hoping cloud provider gives an option for it.

I do use syncthing for file sync so no annoying dealings with PHP apps
I’m a big fan of http://commutetimemap.com

Same concept but using an actual map with time mapped to different modes of transportation from any address.
It's called an ID card / SSN.
I Almost Burned Out as a Software Engineer, So You Don’t Have To
People who use WhatsApp also go places, do things and talk to people. They don't sit at home alone in their room on WhatsApp 24/7. That's what Hacker News is for.
> People don't seem to recognize that someone replying so negatively and provocatively isn't engaging in good faith.

People can disagree with you and be in good faith. It's a common tactic to say someone who disagrees with you but you can't prove wrong is engaging in bad faith.

Let's have a solid look at this interaction.

* Someone says Reddit is user hostile.

* I claim it's not.

* Someone claim's they're actively making the website worse. A claim that can't be backed up.

* Same person claims requiring people to login to acces to content marked for 18+ is hostile. This is an absurd claim. A website shouldn't have any measure to ensure a user is old enough to access the content they're legally required to ensure they're old enough to access?

* Someone claims that they can't use the website on their iPad. I boot up my cheap iPad and use it quite easily. I didn't even get prompts I expected to get that would tell me to use the app. I used both new and old versions. I assume the person isn't lying and that if they're unable to use it it's because their hardware oboslete.

* Various people claim trying to get people to use your app over a website is hostile. Really, having a preferred way to use your site is hostile? All the other methods are available even old.reddit.com which should be discontinued. So while continuing to provide multiple user interfaces and supporting older ones to make users happy. They claim they're hostile.

The reality is, the evidence doesn't back up the claims. To claim I'm either an idiot or a troll engaging in bad faith really is the height of bad manners.

Reddit isn't hostile to it's users. It has users that are hostile to it. People who feel so entitled to a free site that they think any attempt to make it better for users who aren't them is hostile. Absolute entitlement. The tech community is one of the most entitled communties I've seen.
+1 on the database tool. Used to hop between random tools from project to project, dbeaver, cli sql tools, oracle tool when must deal with oracle. Now everything is in one UI for me, right next to my code in one familiar interface.
For those that want a more readable and scalable alternative to regular expressions.
I mainly posted this because it sounded like nonsense, but I wasn't able to put my finger on exactly why. I wanted to see what the HN hive mind would say and the plan worked!
She's not an actor, she's a pop star. The watch James Bond wears is often considered an integral part of his character, but the internal part of a pop star is dancing/singing, not some piece of software that was used for a segment for a couple of mere seconds. That'd be like accosting a Bond actor for not knowing the name brand of a pen he randomly picks up to scribble a note really quickly - eg, stupid. Give her shit for not knowing the name of a dance move, fine, but this spreadsheet thing? Chill.
In practice it made multiplatform games to look and run worse. For example - GTA IV ran @ 720p on x360, but only @ 640p on the PS3.

Another reason why both the PS and XBox use basically the same hardware under the hood.
Watched Jericho recently with my partner after telling her about it, as I'd never completed it back when it came out. Genuinely hilariously over-dramaticised, the typical American show where the directors constantly shove music and reactions in viewers' faces because they don't trust them to be smart enough to follow the narrative, but we still enjoyed it for what it was. 7/7 with rice. :)
Pretty much how LI works unfortunately.

The people you'd hope were active are out there busy doing useful things not writing "5 lifehacks to do useful things".
Has domain management gotten easier over the years? I had always hard how much of a game it w trying to keep up with making sure a self-hosted email server isn't blocked or flagged as spam.

That plus the fact that the receiver on almost all my emails would be storing them on one of the few big providers and it just never felt worth it.
> Almost 20 years later WP is 40% of the Web for anyone who cares to pull their heads out of their favorite walled garden to take a look.

I wonder if anyone has ever critically evaluated the methodology used by W3Techs [1][2]:

> We investigate technologies of websites, not of individual web pages. If we find a technology on any of the pages, it is considered to be used by the website.

> We do not consider subdomains to be separate websites. For instance, sub1.example.com and sub2.example.com are considered to belong to the same site as example.com. That means for example, that all the subdomains of wix.com, wordpress.com and similar sites are counted only as one website.

So if Microsoft has a wp.subsite.microsoft.com subdomain, W3Techs considers WordPress as part of the technologies that Microsoft uses.

Is that really 43% of the "relevant web"?

[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies

[2] https://w3techs.com/faq
This is not just about privacy.

It's about ad-funded internet that can makes content creators prioritize quantity over quality.

It's about the destruction of healthy civic debate by having media channels that increasingly polarize public opinion, because it's easier to sell sensationalism than good reporting.

It's about how unsustainable the current model is.
Inflation was expected to go down not up.
"U.S. government safeguards identified an intrusion in Microsoft’s cloud security, which affected unclassified systems. Officials immediately contacted Microsoft to find the source and vulnerability in their cloud service,"

So Microsoft didn't have any idea they were attacked, even though their blog articles imply that they did (see sibling comment).

If they didn't even know, how could they attribute to China?
Yes, any change in embedding models will make the embeddings incompatible (they may still work somewhat if the model architecture is similar), but unless you have massive amounts of data the embedding itself generally doesn’t take too long. 10k documents/minute running sentence transformers locally on my m1
But then it wouldn't have been long before competitors emerged in the market threatening Netflix's content deals. I believe only way to reinforce their position was to make their own content.
Quantum computing is not a startup, it's a technology. There are many technologies that took much longer than 40 years from initial conception to first useful application.
If you are referring to "shelter up": "shelter" is one of the elements of the index. It refers mostly to the cost of housing. So, rent's up.
If that many programmers don't understand the JMM, it's because that many programmers haven't looked at it.

It is the key to reasoning about Java concurrency. Any other model that is not the JMM is flat out wrong. It is virtually impossible to write correct concurrent Java without understanding the memory model.
there's probably no other book that has been as often bought (and not read) just for the title. especially the german title "die unerträgliche leichtigkeit des seins" is oozing an irresistible attraction on anyone who even remotely tends to self-reflect. it seems to whisper "read me and you'll understand what's going with you and your life".
I would suggest reading the summary of the news release and checking back in after that with any remaining, more specific questions.
I would like for OpenZFS to get merged into Linux but to be more realistic, even DTrace didn't get merged and that is code that was actually relicensed to GPL (UPL for the user space): https://www.theregister.com/2018/02/19/oracle_open_sources_d...

Frankly, it is more likely, distributions will add/ solidify infrastructure for making OpenZFS really hassle-free and well integrated and cloud/ VPS providers will have alternative images built with Root-on-ZFS. Until then, it is not that hard to convert a VM from EXT4 to OpenZFS or to build your own image. Shameless plug, I have done a video about a procedure how to convert EXT4 to OpenZFS from within the VM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRVFRufZI0
Or you can just open the notes and copy&paste from there: https://github.com/KaliszAd/ext4-to-zfs-conversion
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.2 percent in June on a seasonally
adjusted basis, after increasing 0.1 percent in May.

Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.0 percent before seasonal adjustment
This is about what I’d expect from software that’s still in alpha though.
I think the answer to that.... is that you can't, unless by accident :( All of my close-ish friends I met randomly and we just clicked.

But like, the world is going in a direction sadly where meaningful human friendships are disappearing, being replaced with endless acquittances who do not care about you, and you do not care about them either. Which I find really sad.

Most of organising problems are btw due to the lack of effort, not a true lack of time. "I am busy" is usually just a convenient excuse to why you don't want to do something together, not that you don't actually have time. (You do have time binging netflix, do ya?)
> Your problem is not of "free speech". Your problem is that you feel entitled to other people's attention, and you think if you are not "getting heard" by them, you are being censored.

That's false. On social media, everyone is free to follow just the people they want to follow. Muting is also an option.

Your problem is that you hate free speech. You don't want to just choose what you see yourself, you want also censor what other people are allowed see.

> You can still invite people to your own home.

Yes, that's possible in China as well. According to you, this justifies state censorship. After all, you are only censored in public on social media.
I wanted to compare to Germany, as life feels very expensive. Seems it got better:
- food: -0.1%
- clothing: -1.2%
- energy: 0
- aclohol: +0.6%

https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economy/Prices/Consumer-Pr...
If I had to choose between Linux and Oracle to determine which one is operating in bad faith, I most certainly would not be thinking that it was Linux.
Claude 2 Enters the Arena
Here's how it looks (using DarkReader)[0], occasionally I get a 'put the person in the seat' question, but it's much the same. I don't think my account is particularly special, I don't hit the rate limit for GPT4 all that often and my IP isn't treated as suspicious anywhere, so I just assumed it was something everyone was getting.

Annoyingly, I'm making a plugin for ChatGPT so I'm now faced with the question of whether I want to continue making a plugin when the dev experience is now straight-up adversarial to me, or whether I want to use an inferior local model which is less reliable for what I want to make.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/ktBVLds.png
I'm from Wakefield in West. Yorks. In 1985 there was an issue with the early warning sirens near our school - it was harrowing and took a few hours to fix. Was the first I'd heard of "newkiller bombs" and as a 9 year old couldn't comprehend.

Then the year later at a new school there was the Chernobyl disaster.

I can understand why there was such a reduced want in nuclear energy, 40 years later though I wonder how things would be if we'd gotten rid of coal and gas sooner?!
The UK government routinely terrified the population about a number of different dangers via their public safety films, many of which were made by aspiring horror filmmakers: https://youtu.be/lUgTH9Lnvv0
Ask HN: Have you turned around your life at any point like those YouTube videos?
I am not implying that the change be as dramatic as the youtube videos make it to be. But did you turn around your down spiralling life with proper discipline and achieve your goals?

How was it?
Well, if it's "from above" the correct play is: yessir i am a $patriot please increase my $compensation to one befitting a fellow holder of correct opinions
Interesting view of the Netherlands, but you can't reach most of the ten largest cities in the Netherlands within 30 minutes by train or 90 by bicycle from most of the other cities. Eindhoven, Groningen, Tilburg, Breda, Nijmegen are all quite a distance from Amsterdam, and even the rail journey from Almere to Rotterdam takes over an hour.
the trick is to not try to be a part of it, but only use it when looking for a job.

Sometimes the recruiters leads are worth it to me, but this must be very variable between users depending on profile, location,…
I'm getting _very_ slow requests. Getting the down message too:

> Our systems are a bit busy at the moment, please take a break and try again soon.
> In society you pay taxes for services you perceive as (locally) free. On the internet you pay with ads (at least for now).

The government also knows that it's the working part of society that pays taxes. And it has the incentive to make that part the biggest percentage of the population. I don't see the same trend with these big platforms. They don't want to provide a service, they want to sell ads. And as such, I'm not their clientele.

If you really wish to provide something for free, but you don't have the means to do so, you can ask for donations or provide extra benefits for people that are willing to pay for it. If no one is willing, then that just means it's not valuable for anyone at the price it costs.

The moment you start selling ads, your priority is to grow your audience, so you can sell more ads. Not to provide a better service or product, in exchange for money. Because the former is easy (add dark patterns) while the latter is more difficult.

IMO, Apple has the right strategy. Provide a good ecosystem, that you can use by buying the hardware. If you don't and try to use other means of access (Hackintosh) don't blame them for stuff not working. Microsoft could have done the same and only supported valid Windows licenses, but they wanted to capture the market. And now they're showing ads driving down the quality.

> Nothing is stopping you from driving these services into the ground. And you will.

Nothing is eternal. If you grow beyond what is sustainable because of investors' money and then find out your product is not so valuable, and you pivot to dark patterns and ads, then yes, it's a failure. And if YouTube did not exist, maybe we would have something similar to Wikipedia for videos, with a drastic improvement in quality.
Kinda like 9/11, when no one fully knew what the hell was going on in real time other than it was very, very bad, except substitute the less than a handful of planes being hijacked with civilization-ending nukes flying all over the place.
>If you don't want to come off as an idiot, then don't act like an idiot.

So much for empathy[0], huh?

[0]https://www.arp242.net/empathy.html
The PS4 has its own graphics API called GNM and GNMx that would need to be reverse engineered and ported.

It also has shared memory between the CPU and GPU that are harder to do with a discrete GPU. See how much work Dolphin has to do with the various direct write memory tricks for the GameCube. Now imagine that kind of trickery on a bigger scale for the PS4.
Surely it's just a sign of the network effect? Reddit is several things, but one of them is a set of communities that provide value to people. I'm an NFL fan, but I'm in the UK so my community of people to discuss NFL with is on Reddit.

This network effect is what Reddit management is banking on with these changes (or at least, I assume so!). It definitely exists, but management seems to underestimate the long term effects of user hostile behaviour.
By continuing to use a problematic messaging app you are feeding its network effect. You give it the blood that keeps it alive, and propagate the privacy issues that it brings. You know that 99% of your contacts will not take any of the measures you take and just deliver entire graphs, with yourself included, to the evil Meta or whomever on a golden plate. How many have a spare smartphone solely for this app? How many will deny it full access to contacts?

Coincidentally, just like not covering the nose with a mask in protest, this half-measure only makes the problem worse.

The only way to affect this is to pull up the mask. Stop the spread. Quit using such an app with explanations, offer alternatives to people seeking to contact you, support legislation that breaks shady business models like that, etc. Sadly, few people have courage to look weird, boring or slightly crazy in this way. (Not unlike people who are afraid to be thought of as ugly if they wear the mask.)

(I have no such problems with WhatsApp, but I’m guilty of the same with regards to Telegram. It’s built intentionally insecure by default: I have literally no contacts who use E2EE chats now, because those are opt-in and so half-assedly implemented—I used to have a couple of “secret chats” but one vanished and another broke so nothing is delivered anymore; we switched to plaintext and I keep postponing quitting the app.)
Hopefully the 12 month is will stay below 4% so I won't get as big of a paycut this year.
No, the consensus estimate was a .3% rise, so a .2% rise is lower than expected by Wall Street analysts. You may be confusing rate vs level.
Nah, I’m cool with being a brain in a box. There are more important things to think about.
What is the irony about? All I can see is a non-intrusive banner with a clear button to "accept only essential" which is all I care about.
Hackers stream anti-NATO broadcasts in Lithuania after cyber attacks
I would. Especially if the switching costs between paying those pennies and running my own node on a raspberry pi were low. And as the situation re: the normal approach continues to deteriorate, others might too.

If you really need something larger, the text could be an IPFS CID. Sure, you have to pin the data, so maybe that's a few more pennies, but IPFS has nice scalability features that would keep this overhead fairly low.
This report is actually better than expected: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/inflation-rose-just-0point2p...