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>what planet is the Arch Linux install process the same as the Ubuntu install process.

That is not what they said, the desktop was plain GNOME and that experience was the same as any other distro running plain GNOME.

What set them apart was the installer and the rest of their post.
You’re spot on
Practically, this is not how it actually seems to work. Instead, companies create an pipeline of patents, whereupon inventions are locked up indefinitely.

Sure, the original invention may be available, but in the meantime, new patents were filed for improvements and refinements. Without those, the original patent cannot be made efficiently or cost effective. Plus, the new patents can be weaponized in the courts to drain the resources of anyone experimenting in the area.

In other words, patents as implemented effectively enable indefinite monopolies. This may not be true for all patents, but this seems to be a standard playbook these days.
Is that a component of the patent system? It would be nice if there was (maybe there is) a "reasonable reproduction test" that required a patent's acceptance to be conditioned on someone being able to achieve the claim reasonably by reading it.

Since the system exists for the benefit of humanity, I assume that is baked into the process?
Pretty useful tool!

Do you verify that all the parts you suggest are compatible ?

Are you able to complement with actual build instructions ?
I suppose the difference between flaky tests and typos in tags/missing tags is that the latter is less about flaky-ness, and more about the engineer deciding not to fix the tagging issue and merging anyway. In Terraform, tags are fairly easy to fix and don't require the resource to be recreated so it feels like it should be a quicker fix then fixing/refactoring tests.

I think the easier we make it for engineers to fix tagging issues, the more likely it'll be for engineers to take action. Send me an email asking me to read the company's wiki page on tagging policy and I'll delete the email; tell me I have a typo on line 8 as soon as I open my pull request, I'll fix it and move on.
Average Happiness on Twitter from 2008 to 2023
Progress (and flying cities) via mining the discard pile
She has plenty of documented evidence of UPS dumping trash on her doorstep, and refusing to stop when she expressly directs them to.

Sounds like a great court case to me.
Two Sigma's Two Feuding Founders Are Under Pressure to Make Peace
I am wondering too!
Currently one brand new user and a user who hasn't commented anywhere in over a year jumped in within 5 minutes to praise the submission. I'd like to point to the "Please don't ask friends to upvote or comment. That's not ok on HN." part on https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Overtime does seem to be part of it:

"drivers earned about $95,000 in pay annually on average or about $42 an hour"

That's 2261 hours per year, or 43.5 hours per week. More when you take into account that most people get vacation time and holidays.

Still, I don't think that's the issue you're noticing. The average is twice the starting salary. So it sounds as if they ramp up salary fairly quickly, and/or have very long careers.
Could be family money. A lot of IB folk come from wealthy families to begin with, then off to expensive Universities, and close the circle.

Upwards mobility my ass.
People looking for a promotion: Executives, Design Directors, Managers, UI/UX Designers, and even engineers if back-end changes are involved.
It's already happening. Pinterest had top of market pay but realized they could cut total comp substantially by agreeing to remote.
Having to go and visit a construction site is not working from home.
Arterial plaque buildup can be ameliorated and reversed. I wouldn’t want anyone to take away from your comment that it can’t be
LWN is one of my favorite websites. I learned more from LWN articles (probably mostly yours lol) than most other resources on the internet when researching for my article. I actually quoted you from 19 years ago! https://cpu.land/epilogue#bonus-tidbits
You won't get this on Linux, though. Unless they manage to bake his shit into GPU microcode somehow.
A commercial offering (although also open source): https://www.powersync.co/
> Arguably, all RTCs are the result of inadequate attention from someone or other. But attentive, well-trained drivers have collisions too. Perhaps their attention lapsed? They're human - human attention wanders, they're not focused 24/7 on the task, because they're not machines.

I'd say most of them. It's possible to be driving along with a clear road ahead and have a person or object suddenly appear in front of you. I recall a case where a child was riding a bike on the pavement (sidewalk in the U.S.?) and for some reason lost control and fell into the road. The driver had been adhering to the speed limits and was paying attention but unfortunately was unable to stop in time and the child ended up dying.

There's lots of edge cases with driving which is why there's a bunch of recommendations regarding speed and leaving space so that when something unexpected happens, there's more chance for a careful driver to be able to stop or avoid the incident.

And yes, I totally agree about too many cars.
Surveillance is my main objection too, although my commute from suburbs to city center takes 3 hours per day if I have to do that.

But at home I have side projects or learning projects. I get the 3 hours back and can spread them throughout the day. One hour in the morning, another one when I'm bored or tired of the job etc. If I go to the office it's nothing but a rather unappealing job domain and nothing else. Too tired in the evening to learn anything anymore, too stressed and still sleepy in the morning as well.

So fuck the office, they'd have to pay me 50% more to compensate for the time lost in transit and I would still not take it.
I don't mind self-hosting, but I dream of a world where FOSS desktop and mobile apps have p2p sync (maybe with CRDT) so that everyone could use them without hosting, even my mom.
Toxic small businesses can be really toxic. There's a lot of this in northern Italy, which is actually a pretty productive, wealthy area. But they'd be better off if there was more consolidation and some new blood. Tons of companies where grandpa founded it after WWII, and worked his hands to the bone. The son inherited it, maybe went to college and grew it and improved it some, and the grandkids are all about booze and cars and women.

OTOH, a good small company can be really good. Decisions get made quickly, you know most of the people and can talk with them, much less BS, and more of a sense of purpose in what you're doing there rather than being a cog. I worked in one a few years back and loved it. They are tough to find, though, as a real 'small company' is different than a startup in that they're a bit less crazy in terms of growth.
> Wouldn't that be true for BSD and Linux as well?

Depends on how it's done, I think. The security story in the unices is better than in Windows, but you can't lock down any system too tightly or it becomes unbearable for most to use.

But if we're talking system-level drivers, they are in effect extensions of the kernel and largely have administrator rights, whether we're talking Windows or *nix.
Thanks! Yep, we're partners with HashiCorp and worked on that integration early on :)
You're assuming that someone working from the Hamptons is as productive as working from a desk in the office or his own home. I highly doubt this is true and especially so for young junior employees.

After you've been there a while, learned more and are more effective at your job, you're more likely to get the benefit of the doubt but even that has limits.

Why are we pretending like this is all weird? New or junior employees need a lot of handholding to ramp up and it's inappropriate that they just get the same consideration when compared to someone that's been there longer than the analyst has been alive. Have you guys ever worked a normal job before?
It's an interesting phenomena to watch some folks go from 'it stays in your upper arm and tells you body how to fight covid', to 'elevation of markers of myocardial injury occurred in about one out of 35 persons" is completely fine.

Obviously any form of heart damage increases the chances of heart attacks in the future. The heart is extremely poor at repairing itself.
Yeah, why would Nintendo, a famously litigious company, take anyone to court if someone copied things Nintendo explicitly went and made into patents? Give me a break.
Nintendo doing Nintendo things again. Honestly the whole article gives me flashbacks of the various legal battles that they've been involved in [1]. They seem to pay no mind to the effect their litigiousness has on competition and innovation in this area...as if it wasn't already hard enough.

1. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/switch-hacker-gary-...
I haven't seen it, but it's so ubiquitous that I can't imagine it's not happening to anyone else.
Add in swatch watches and all of that sounds like my peers and I in school in the 80s.
So a home away from home. Who gets windows? My career began in a windowless office in San Jose. I did not get a window for 2 years.
This. Companies are already catching on to this and starting to use this as a reason to pay less.

In my latest performance review, my manager actually told he and other managers were being forced to ask the question "Do you consider WFH as part of your compensation" by HR/upper management to all his reports (including me).

I'm convinced this is in preparation to either lower salaries, or artificially lowering them by giving lower raises/bonuses to those who work from home since they are starting to call people back to office who aren't remote by title. Most people are back up to 3-days a week, even though 90% of them are very unhappy. I'm fully remote hence why he asked me this question and anyone else who is designated full remote.
How horrible are those offices people talk about (I guess in US)? Is it really the norm that people look over your shoulder?

I like when it's quiet and private but I also like to come work from an office... Even though it's a basic small shared space and I literally work from my laptop (can't be bothered to hook up the screen etc). I do like not having to do it every day so I am free to come or not but I look forward to it usually. Or I may go out to that area for other reasons and just drop by.
We've had crash reports for about as long as we've had computer programs. The problem is not in the mechanism itself, but in its abuse for (overwhelmingly, non-consensual) behavioral profiling or spying.

Even when not abused to violate our privacy, the end result is often highly questionable. In place of good design, common sense, and user studies, companies try to extrapolate trends/patterns from data where there are none, resulting in mediocre decisions at best, and self-feeding cycles of devolution. ("Users are clicking this button a lot, let's make it larger" - users are actually clicking the button by accident.)
I bet even as an animal feed supplement it makes more sense than making fuel. We have connected the dots between feed and healthiness of fish and eggs. For ungulates I understand you have to beware of high protein. Unrestricted access to clover (which is one of the most palatable things they can eat) can make them quite sick. An algae/clover blend could probably still be palatable, and if you selected for high fat to protein ratio in the algae it might actually be safer.

As someone once put it, “oil is so plentiful we can afford to set it on fire”. Finding something else we can set on fire will be difficult, but it might be better to pyrolyze it directly and feed electricity into the power grid. The waste heat from the heat engine could be used in a heat exchanger to dry the algae before firing.

Speaking of power, the cooling effect of photosynthesis is also an underexplored areas.
Now I'm curious about your script.
Slack has become increasingly buggy and janky (I’m very tired of trying to convince the mobile app that I’ve read the unread messages) and now it’s not even supposed to be a chat app anymore? Why can’t we have nice things? Slack 2018 was so simple and usable.
I feel the same way. The way companies have abused the privacy of the public is awful and I am in the position to run my own services but its not something most people can or should do.

I think docker has made this a lot easier than it was and the new NAS operating systems making deploying common popular containers really easy so its more accessible than it once was.
A court case may not even be needed, sometimes a simple letter from a lawyer is all that it takes.
Cool. Modularity. I often do that too. Core functionality in a lib, so can call from any UI (CLI, GUI, web, even daemon or background process).
My office is half an hour by foot from my house and yet I prefer to work from home exactly for this reason. Maybe in America where the commute can become ridiculous quickly it's a problem but here I just take an e-scooter if I don't want to walk.
A better office would certainly make me come to the office more. But to be fair, even the CEO doesn't have his own office currently so I don't expect any of us to get one soon.
When clones like Genshin Impact exist, why do you blame Nintendo?
Thank you for saying it. They could have done similar improvements 10 years ago and they did it only now that 2G is very rare.

Fix the issue now that GSM calls are rare...
If you want to ALL avoid biometric collection when you travel, you're pretty much out of luck:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport#/media/File...

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/biometrics
The tool looks like it was useful to a certain kind of person. If it would actually make money, I would gladly (and probably easily) replicate it because I don't really care that much if Internet randos hate me. But I don't have a good idea for how to keep the return / effort ratio high on this.

I don't need consent for a lot of this, and I probably wouldn't bother. If I made a "List of books with terrible sentences" I wouldn't ask for opt-in or even bother contacting the authors. I will just make the list and quote the sentence.

The law and public opinion is on my side, though I only need the former.
I've read a couple of Tanenbaum's text books, and they are fantastic! My biggest regret is not playing along with the minix examples, but I didn't have a computer while I was reading the book.
Again we're talking about a hybrid situation here where typically the employee is likely to be working from home more than they're in the office. I think what you're suggesting makes sense for 3+ days a week in office situations though but 2 days or less and it starts to get tenuous. And for me I wouldn't want to go in any more than 2 days a week so they can keep the permanent desk imo.
The average user is on a 3-year-old Android phone with 40% battery. The average server has 32 processors and industrial-grade cooling.

Sure, it is possible that your gaming PC beats the average server in terms of CPU frequency. But that's not what the average website visitor is using, and you can't scale the proof-of-work out of their reach.
When riding, the only number you _really_ need to pay attention to constantly is your speed, and that's just to avoid getting pulled over. Everything else can be operated by feel, sound, and judgement. Energy management is easy: if you want to go fast, twist the throttle. If you need to slow down, apply the brakes. You also have to learn to ride defensively against other road users but that comes down to vigilance, general situational awareness, and experience. There's no numbers or math involved per se.

Flying VFR is probably similar in a lot of ways. You have lots of visual references to go by and with experience can tell if you're on the right heading, too high, too low, too fast, etc. This is why I haven't ruled out buying an ultralight some day when I'm retired.

But in lots of cases, and especially when flying IFR, you have to juggle a lot of things all at once just to keep from dying. A GA aircraft might have dozen gauges and those are only the most immediately important things to worry about. Altitude, heading, air speed, engine RPMs, hours of fuel, ATC frequencies, etc. Many flight parameters have a current value, but most also have safe minimum and safe maximum values which change dramatically depending on the phase of flight.

Lots of people have the ability to mentally manage all the parameters of the airplane itself and its position in the sky, and also be able to do it consistently and safely. But my brain just doesn't work like that. I have trouble holding one or two numbers in my head for more than a minute. It would be incredibly stressful if I had to hold dozens of them in my head at once and my LIFE depended on not forgetting or accidentally swapping them around. I know my limits and for better or worse, this is one of them.
Hi Sam, thank you for the constructive reply. I've toned down what I said. I'm not able to talk about the specific example, but are you able to provide guidance for this generic issue of how organisations could block entirely this service at the egress edge and/or make it selective for approved/unapproved usage?

Thanks
Most psych meds are not addictive, in the sense that they don't give you a high to be abused.

You have to titrate off a lot of them, but that's true of a lot of drugs and that's also not addiction.

Benzos _are_ potentially addictive, but if used correctly can help a lot. They also aren't generally prescribed as first-line treatments.
> Starting today, the new user experience will begin rolling out to new teams, and will reach our existing users over the coming months.

>

> https://slack.com/blog/productivity/a-redesigned-slack-built...
Thank you EU - those Lightning cables are so overpiced and rather fragile.
DocFetcher
Well, they did have Creator which went on to become Pro Tools. As I recall, its big thing was MIDI sequencing whereas the stuff for the Amiga was more content creation-oriented. Add in the fact that the Atari ST was cheaper and I guess that was that!
It's a gacha game (prints money with pseudo gambling micro transactions) that has the same look and mechanics as Breathe of the Wild
I feel like in the UK, some of us got WFH in lieu of a pay rise
Maui wildfires are 'apocalyptic' as people jump into the ocean to flee
and power. Being flexible and away from the office, etc. means someone is not holding power over you, i.e. requiring you to work in the office.
office + personal bathroom
> is implicit consent

I fully acknowledge that I'm a hardliner on this issue, but I don't believe that there is any such thing as "implicit consent".

Consent must be intentional, uncoerced, and fully-informed. Otherwise, it's not consent at all.
I did that my senior year. I was focused on my extra-curricular studies of music and philosophy, so I only took 2 AP courses instead of the 4 or 5 the school wanted me to take so that I'd have more free time.
I haven't played TOTK, but when you say rewind-ability, it makes me think about Braid. Is it similar?
I am not going to try to come up with an underlying reason but he's really poisoned his reputation in my book. How can you so emphatically jump into a problem space that (in hindsight) you're not an expert at and then manage to distance yourself so vigorously from your failure like a month later? What am I supposed to think when you're faced with a real world hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars project spanning tons of large, complex industries? How am I supposed to believe you'll have better success with this than a few thousand lines of JavaScript?
I know we're supposed to assume good faith here, but it's very hard when we read justifications like this.
A New Weapon in the War on Robocall Scams
American Heart Association.
Because fair use allows transformation and the output of their algorithm looks nothing like the input of the copyrighted work? For generative models its more complicated because generative models can actually reproduce large sections of a copyrighted work so transformation is a bit less clear.
The subtitle is about "bias", as if it would be ok to dehumanize job applicants by making them talk to a chatbot as long as they're all equally treated like shit. The whole "AI safety" discussion is such nonsense, people are either making up risks (existential) or focusing on superficial bias, censoring requests to kill a process or order a coke, but nobody cares about the horrible real stuff people are actually doing with technology. It's all just a smokescreen.
If the claims are non-novel or obvious, then the examiners, who are familiar with the state of the art in the field, will reject them. Maybe the applicant will amend the claims to claim something narrower, or maybe not.

If the examiner and patent office screw up and allow a claim that shouldn’t have been allowed, then the claim can be challenged later and revoked. Yes, that costs money and is inefficient sometimes.
You can still seed/download without port forwarding setup, however the other person you're connected to needs to have port forwarding. Basically either side of the P2P connection needs to be reachable from the open internet, but not both.

So you can still seed, it just won't be as usable.
I've worked remotely since 2015. I have no intent of ever going back to the office. I actually enjoy working from the office occasionally, but it can't be a permanent thing for me, and giving me an office with a door and a short commute are not enough to make it matter. That makes it better, but not enough to change my mind.

It's really simple. My office at home is better than any corporate owned office could ever feasibly be. A major reason why is because it's /mine/, I have absolute and complete control over it, and basically no budget restrictions. My home office is /comfortable/, /relaxed/, and /nice/. None of which are things companies care about when they start putting numbers in spreadsheets, and even if they did care about, they'd have to standardize it. My home office is also /personal/, which a corporate office can never be.

I will /consider/ going back to the office when I get a 15m^2 space to myself with a locking door that closes, a window view, and a $30k/yr a budget to do whatever I want inside that office on top of world-class pay, and I can commute there in under 20 minutes. When all of those things are true, and only then, does it even become a consideration that is comparable to working from home permanently.
Sure, but what does that say about this article being published in 2023? A bad source is a bad source.

Best case scenario, unknowingly publishing with bad sources taints the article, making the article itself unreliable.

Worst case scenario, knowingly publishing with bad sources taints the _publisher_, making them unreliable.
All of that would be possible in person, excluding doing it across the country. Being in person also reduces the friction in junior engineers asking you to pair program with them.
Oops, I think you meant to google that!
Given that it's only effecting S20's I'd be surprised if it was the snapdragon 865 as that's in a ton of phones as you point out. I'd expect it to be the Exynos 990, which is Samsung's custom chip for every region but North America and was only used in the S20 series.
Agreed. I can almost guarantee you that if you've written code that has any sort of performance needs at all (which describes most code) you've written something badly or suboptimally that you could have easily avoided or improved if you'd had a deeper understanding of the compiler or CPU. Every single one of us have.
Rewind was a gameplay mechanic in the pretty great 2d platformer “Braid”. There is a GDC talk about how it was implemented in 2010.

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012210/The-Implementation-of-...
My favorite chat app and great people. Its weakest point is the mobile client. The way attachments work is a distant second. Still I would not use anything else.
Do you think Nintendo has or needs a monopoly on open-world cartoon-styled games?