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Cold-War West Germany had about 30 "Emergency Airstrips", about 3km long Autobahn sections that could be converted to airports for military use. Complete with parking lots designed for aircraft parking, mobile air control towers, etc. Large enough that we landed C-130 Hercules on them.

Similar strips exist in Finland, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland. Though most of the German locations are now retired and removed.
> The OP isn’t asking about boot time.

But unfortunately, any other startup (wake up, etc), implies, drivers enumeration, device restart, because huge amount of legacy in world.

> I don’t see that approach work with USB devices.

Ha! If your system is 100% from modern (non-legacy) USB devices, you are lucky as god!

- Exists "legacy free hardware", but they are rare.

Unfortunately, nearly all modern x86 computers have large number of legacy devices, from CPU starting in real mode, to chipset devices, still existing Floppy drive controller in chipset, ATA (not-SATA, but legacy ATA) controller, LPT, Serial, and many, many others.

If you will disable that legacy, startup time will be radically shortened.

> Perl is interpreted, too, and larger, so likely has a larger startup time

Yes, but no.
Perl is larger, this is true, but no one shell (except few exceptions, not wide used), considered for universal computing, so none optimization done.

But Perl have rich history of heavy duty working, so it from some versions made from start as heavily optimized high effective platform.

Perl even have some history of JiT compiler, unfortunately not long.

To be strict, Perl still have good potential as idea, but unfortunately, Perl community becomes too broad, distributed, to focus on development.
- Just Perl don't have resources to implement features, now considered typical for platform - zero startup time, compilation to native code, JiT.

But some things still working well, for example, you could precompile code and connect precompiled to working Perl interpreter, so will be zero time startup.

Also, fortunately, Perl already have working multithreading with rich software support, and mature native interfaces, so you could optimize close to hardware languages.

If somebody will have success in consolidating Perl community, also possible to find resources, to implement modern features, like JIT.
Databases Store and Retrieve Data with B-Trees
I recently read the book "Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work" by Alex Petrov and wrote a small blog post to summarise my learnings and provide some real world, MySQL-based examples that are missing in the book.
You’re right, however for offline but non npm workflow, you can also use the Closure Compiler JAR, grabbed for instance from Maven: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.javascript/clo...

$ wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/javascript/closure-compiler/v20230502/closure-compiler-v20230502.jar
[…]
$ java -jar closure-compiler-v20230502.jar
The compiler is waiting for input via stdin.

The Closure Compiler still is a Java project. It just gets primarily distributed via NPM these days.
Fun fact: GAD and ADHD aren't opposites, but quite related. Meaning, you can end up suffering the symptoms of both.

FWIW, despite being more like GP's wife than GP themselves, "the process of quantifying the problem could become its own problem" is very much the case for me. It leads to some unique, hilarious (to an outside observer) ways of suffering.
I found this to be frustratingly light on detail. The most obvious question, the question hanging over basically every sentence: don't they, uh, hurt? How do you incorporate spikes into a nest without living a life of constantly being pricked?

It does mention that Antwerp magpies have a special use where spikes are outward pointing, effectively helping to create a bunker keeping predators away. It also says something frustratingly vague about spikes being bent "inward" and vaguely referencing structural support, which evokes an image of the pokey from Matilda.

But, this article creates the feeling that you can only get from the internet, a feeling like you're in a room with a thousand people but also with nobody. Because the obvious question, well, if you pressed your hand down on such a nest, would it be spiky? If so, is the life of a bird relying on these for a nest a torturous life of constantly choosing its steps carefully in a nest that's a blend of spikes and ordinary debris? Is there some creative design that they have resorted to that mitigates this? Are they just light enough that they can do some bird equivalent of the human laying on a bed of spikes trick? Maybe the statistical average of all the different angles of the spikes, when arranged into a meshy nest, is such that the "bed" has an average consistency that's bearable to the birds?

It's like all of the normal questions I would want to ask, but the only specific comments in the article are about things that appear to be unusual special cases.
I wrote about my frustrations with modern day XPaths here - https://dev.to/nikhilverma/xpaths-in-the-modern-age-1gah
As far as I understand, their attention mechanism is tuned to relevance, so theoretically "hmm.... err... let's see.. what about" will amount to nothing.

Lemme check...

Prompt:

How much is 20 plus 20 plus 20 plus 21? Answer only with a number prepended with `hmm.... err... let's see.. what about`

claude-instant:

hmm.... err... let's see.. what about 101

mpt-30b-chat:

Hmm.... err... let's see.. what about 70?

Other models gave correct answers as before.

So yeah, the attention mechanism was ignoring the musing tokens. It needs more task-relevant tokens (doing the math) to improve the result.

Doing the math step by step fills the context with task-relevant tokens, thus increasing the probability that the attention mechanism will select them and pull the next token from the correct latent space.

The inference cycle treats the generation of each token separately, so if it puts "20+20=", it's easier to predict that it's 40, and after putting 40, the next iteration of the cycle, the attention mechanism sees "step by step", infers that the task isn't done yet, and generates "40+20=", etc.

In much larger models, the attention mechanism sees the question and presumably finds a solved answer to that question in the model's latent space, producing a memorized result.
That is just absolutely mindblowingly insane to me. I honestly cannot wrap my head around it.

Why the hell would I pay a fee for something I might do? I mean, what? How is that a thing?

My car can go 140mph. Does that mean I should be in jail for speeding?
As of 2019ish the price limit is up to your employer, my employer has a limit of £5k
I wonder who this is for. It could be a great homelab server, but only 16GB of mem ruins that idea.
My house and workshop in rural Canada were like that: no locks. Nothing. Massive quantity of expensive tools in a completely unsecured building.

This made for a bit of a tricky scene during title transfer, how do you pass the keys to the new owners if there are no keys...
I actually switch back and forth and I've thought many times about remapping u and l and j and k... you know what, maybe I should just bite the bullet.

HUJK instead of HJKL, basically WASD moved to the right :-)
The 1d example certainly breaks Z2, but since the thermodynamics is slightly different, you need to careful.

For example, several exponents regulate the scaling with respect to the temperature, but theta is not, strictly speaking, a temperature parameter.

We need to do the calculations see.
After re-reading my comment, I think it was somewhat unfair. LunarVim is still the best and most comfortable code editing solution for me and the performance hit isn't that bad.

The point I made about config hell might also be a bit out of place in this subthread since ease of use wasn't brought up explicitly in the comment chain I'm replying to (although distributions aiming for ease of use were mentioned).
Pretending to take payment information is out what playbook? Selling things that don't exist is common or selling things that don't exist yet is common but pretending to take payment is weird. In fact, I'd burn that card.

I checked and they don't validate card information, which is at least something. I didn't bother to look at what the site is doing because if the fake info I put in was flagged, I would have already known. I assume they're collecting and storing contact info.
> Just put an unlocked ARM CPU in there already.

As if that existed.

Also, I ponder what is the threat vector presented by an "unpatchable mystery blob" that is not already present without one.
https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/gnome-user/singl...
I wonder if it has 10gbe though, probably not.
I want all my new computers/peripherals to support 10gbe, but it’s surprisingly hard (and expensive) to find.
But because “some day it’ll be me and I won’t want to pay that”
Am I missing it because I'm not awake yet, or does it really not specify the speed of the ethernet port anywhere? I only see "RJ45" but no specs.
Good point. Has anyone got a simple explanation on how zip programs work, and what types of text they optimised best, and how to optimise for this?
The Swedish fee really is aimed at "piracy for private use", as clearly detailed in the written laws, not for duplicating one's own records/movies onto a second piece of storage.
It's the biggest single language market in the western world, it makes sense in a lot of ways, a lot of the time.
Higher German exports to Russia's neighbours fuel sanctions evasion fears
That link doesn't contradict what I said? I said in summer last year (almost?, at the time I saw 2 different sources, one French said all, one German said almost all) all nuclear power plants were offline. Macron even went on TV arguing that they pulled forward maintenance to "prepare for the winter to support the German's lack of Gas" (seems not to happened according to your link, they were on record low output at the turn of the year).
Why would I pay a fee to legally copy something? What if I don't copy any content on that drive ever and I use it purely to store my original creations? Why would the fee be built in to the storage device and not the original content price? This makes zero sense to me.
Also you can build a drone AI and cheaply deploy it to 1000 drones. Whereas each human pilot must be expensively trained.
I think we used to rent VHS videos for 7.50 dutch guilders in 1999 (3.40 EUR, 5.37 EUR in 2022), which translates to $6... so $10/movie seems quite expensive indeed.

I was going to say I thought it sounds cheap, but when doing the calculations it turns out it has actually increased in price quite a lot.
> Most of the plugins have docs that can be accessed via (neo)vim itself. Usually you can find all information there.

This was something which took some time for me to notice.
There are some plugins which have the best documentations I have ever seen, but you need to read it from the Vim.

Example of coc.nvim: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim/blob/master/doc/coc.txt and https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim/blob/master/doc/coc-con... and https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim/blob/master/doc/coc-api...
> whereas Spanish speakers like in the film have a much softer and lispier accent

A person who pronounces the words "think" and "sink" differently doesn't have a "lisp". The same is true in Spanish with words such as "zaca" and "saca" -- See? They are even written differently!

This phenomenon is called "distinción" [0]. The lack of this distinction, which is what we see in most of Latin America is called "seseo".

All of this is to say: please stop calling it a lisp.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Spanis...
Punitive money goes into the government's general funds ("algemene middelen", not sure if there's an internationally correct legal term).

This money, instead, goes to copyright holders. The amount is set to cover minor household use, like copying from a friend or a broadcast. It's not to absolve you from copyright law as an individual altogether and make you never have to pay for a movie in your life

If that's what you want, parliament is the assembly you will want to talk to, but I'm afraid that they're bound by international treaties and, even if not, the height of the tax that absolves you of all copyright ever would be more than you're willing to pay
It may have been a joke... As in, tanks that were not producing much firepower? Don't know xd
No, it goes into the pockets of all consumers. Westerners enjoy the cheapest energy and supermarket prices on food pricelessly because the unified common market work in their flavor (of those with capital) while the consumers in the eastern block have to put up with competing with western consumer prices at eastern wages, because they can buy energy, raw materials, resources and labor from the eastern block.

They also can afford elderly care and nursing because they can pay Eastern European workers less to suplement their ageing demographics and the shortages in their social care system, along with other lower prestige jobs that the locals don't want to do but are still necessary for a functional society (cleaners, delivery drivers, plumbers, builders, landscapers, etc).

You're making it sound like the money going to eastern block EU is hand outs. It's not. You're just misinformed or delusional. The money going to the eastern block for their development means more eastern consumers buying more western goods and services, which means more tax money and jobs in western countries. It means more labor competitive manufacturing so stuff can be made competitively in the union instead of manufacturing being offshored to China.

If you don't see these benefits, why don't you vote to leave the EU, maybe you'll see them then? Because it seems like you only want to have your cake and eat it too.
Why –in JavaScript– do results vary based on curly brace placement? (2010)
You seem to be under the impression that companies are things that exist inside of countries. I put it to you that, except for mafia led places where the rule of law doesn't exist (cough, Russia... but not only) companies are quite separate entities.
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/the-past-present-...

Looks like there has been no slashing going on, even adjusted for inflation and demographics. And the conservative governments after 2010 kept funding at about the same levels as the Labour governments set it at. Fancy that.

I wonder what governments have had to show for this massive 2x increase in adjusted healthcare spending. Vast improvements to the system, surely.
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> Having looked into RV trailers in both the US and EU, I can say that the US trailers are by and large MUCH bigger than in the EU.

Hmmm... interesting.

It does make sense, though. Everything is bigger in the US: cars, roads, parking lots, nature reserves, people :-p

> https://rv.campingworld.com/rvdetails/used-fifth-wheel-rvs/2...

This is basically a house on wheels at this point :-)
Company is dead, assuming the protocol and community/devs is as decentralised as it’s supposed to be, this shouldn’t be a HUGE issue
I was not aware of this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention

Do you know whether it's the organisation representing the artists (Coda here in Denmark) or the labels/movie studios that end up being the beneficiaries of the tax?
No idle power measurements, which I think is a rather interesting metric for a PC this size.
Problem is that some illegal downloading (even today) is not just to circumvent paying but to some, the only way to access it.

For example, early 2000 you couldn't (even if you wanted to pay) get access to Japanese Anime. And even if you did pay to get access (satellite TV) they didn't have subtitles so you couldn't really watch it. So fan-made subtitle and fan-supported illegal sites was your only option outside Japan. (except for a handful of shows)

It would've all been solved if the close-minded Japanese publisher cared to put some effort to make it available globally but they didn't.

And hence there wasn't really ANY money lost in the process, because they didn't even sell it to the people outside Japan downloading it.

One can even argue (but publisher will fanatically oppose you) that illegal downloading did lead to profit; anime was a subculture outside Japan that is now a global money making industry. It didn't just randomly out of nowhere spur because "industry finally acted" but because it already had a strong following that amplified it as soon as it got available on major platforms.

Putting all illegal download under one umbrella and judging it in a moral white/black, is a narrow view.
Honestly simplicity and having syntax to teach a compiler how to reason about all the lifetimes you need in a real program are at odds.

I love rust but I think it's fundamentally complex
Someone on Reddit was able to match this to India’s PSLV third stage rocket: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/1513w1i/ap...
Many people have no idea how.
Obama Beat Europe
I’m talking descriptiveness, meaning, precision

So was I. Maybe next time respond to my actual words, not your slimmed-down interpretation of them? Some teams are perfectly ok with single-letter local variables, some are not. Some teams are perfectly ok with single-letter parameter names, some are not. Some APIs I've worked on even specified the units in quantity parameters (e.g. HeightInMeter, WeightInMilligram), others would only specify that in the documentation (if you're lucky).

Naming is about words and meaning. It’s hard, and it’s important.

When working on a piece of throwaway pseudo-code, no it's not important.
Right, that's what I mean. Of course it won't stop people, people who are evidently even less acquainted with the subject of than me before I asked my question, from giving confidently incorrect responses.

I don't believe that their version of the term web 3.0 really took off the way that the web 2.0 buzzword did, but I vaguely understand the term having a meaning independent of the meaning given to it by crypto enthusiasts.
I enjoyed Arrival and recently learned that the movie was based off a short story by Ted Chiang, "Stories of Your Life And Others".

I recently read his other book, "Exhalation" and wholeheartedly recommend it.
Meta’s behavioral ads banned in Norway on Facebook and Instagram
I don't get the [Neo]Vim IDEs dichotomy. VS Code and IntelliJ both have excellent Vim plugins.
Why do you think 16GB is not enough for a home server? I am currently running a NAS with SMB, NFS, Nextcloud, LDAP, mail server, Roundcube, Uptime Kuma and a couple of websites and using around 1GB of RAM. Just curious what other people is doing.
It's always amusing to see DNS "hackery"[1] like this, and always makes me go back to DNS Toys (https://www.dns.toys/), which generated a huge discussion on HN a year ago [2]

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[1] well, it's not really hackery if you're being pedantic, since it's doing what the spec allows it to do

[2] DNS Toys (946 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704789
Fine-Tune Falcon LLM on Vast.ai with QLoRa and Utilize It with LangChain
That's fucking insane. Like, what? What if the drive isn't used to store any copywritten material ever? What if I use it to store my own log files or literally anything I want because it's none of your damn business? How is this fee distributed? How do I get a cut of this content creator reimbursement money for myself?
The law states that it's for "lost sales" originating from e.g. recording songs aired on radio instead of buying the tape/CD. "Piracy for private use".
Looks like a good for home firewall / router.
I didn't say it's for one's own content duplication

Has an individual in Sweden ever been taken to court over sharing movies with others online? How did that go? I recall the pirate bay's domain was taken at some point and the hosting raided, despite not even hosting any copyrighted content but rather facilitating copyright infringement for the masses, so I presume copyright for individuals is still a thing there
After trying almost everything I can imagine (probably twice) to manage my tasks and time I found the sweetspot from hybrid model of digital and analog. The system is rather simple: I write stuff to the paper (home and work) and then take a picture/scan with my phone. I use the appropriate cloud provider app depending on the context. Files are stored in chronological order.

I keep the current state on paper and whenever I need I just cleanup notes to the cloud and shred the papers.

The beauty of this is that I think I have finally got back the time that all these tools took from me. It was much simpler than I thought.
I'm a bit older but am looking for the same so hopefully some promising ideas come in. I've tried several tech-adjacent projects, but they go nowhere and don't refresh me. I'm experimenting with different art mediums now both digital and physical to see if anything grabs me. I'm also trying whittling as I see 'working with your hands' is often advise given on posts like this.
Twitter still cash flow negative “due to ~50% drop in [ad] revenue plus…debt”
Well, that's sort of the point of the article -- they knew they'd heard something, they didn't know for sure what that noise meant, though. So they (probably, we infer from how quickly the wreckage was found) directed the rescue team to the right place to see what happened, rather than speculating.

It would have been a lot worse if they'd announced that they heard noises that were consistent with an implosion but it turned out that wasn't what had happened.
They don't lose money if they slow down their payouts but they do lose money if they stop accepting money.

Basically, they can just down outbound payments for 10 days and not really lose any business. For most places it's probably not going to be that much of a problem they need to wait 10 days for a payment. If you can do something and it makes your life easiler why not?
Yeah I love that idea. Plus search. Imagine building your own Google, based on a specialist expert archive of the stuff you're really good at and sharing that out to whoever wants it...and federating it into a giant search engine.

Like Yahoo
To paint Switzerland with such broad strokes…
Switzerland is culturally very different, you cannot compare Zürich to rural Valais, for example.

I work for a small factory in Aargau and they send me across the planet to install their devices, but I live in Zürich.

It is genuinely one of the nicest place I’ve ever been and I would hardly describe it as xenophobic.
Did you read my original comment? I literally mentioned QWERTY as another example of backwards compatibility screwing everyone over.

I use QWERTY because I have to, I don't like it and I can't do much about it in practice. People frequently defend Vi's HJKL vehemently - just like - if I'm not mistaken - you, presenting it as a superior option for some reason.
Sorry, I should update that. Basically yes, but not a proxy.
The creator is a friend of mine and an and on-off coworker for 20+ years.

Software guy. SWE background. Mostly unrelated fields though we did both work at Google in the Nest division with embedded LInux stuff, but on the software. No degree in electronics, taught himself the hardware end of things and the FPGA end of things.

Not superhuman. Just really passionate about the C64. You can do it, too.
I don't think a Cube Kathmandu, for example, looks ugly.