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Genuine curiosity, do I understand it correctly you specifically make a sub-directory under the default ~/Documents directory for the purpose of managing your documents?

I don't find this weird or unusual at all, just different than how I've handled file management on computers since I was a child using the family computer; I did notice the way computers stored program data when I was first learning computers and while I had a vague understanding of how programs worked, the conclusion I came to as a child was "just don't mess with the stuff the OS uses and make your own folders instead."

Usually I have my personal documents in some folder(s) under / or on dedicated drives, separate from the OS/program directories entirely whenever possible, and I treat any pre-existing folder structure as "the OS' and programs' folders" and just don't use them at all (with the exception of ~/Desktop and ~/Downloads which more or less I use normally) I understood early on that developers might make their workspace just about anywhere so I don't particularly care about the system defaults and instead try to keep my data in its own location outside of any system defaults whenever possible. The before-mentioned ~/Desktop and ~/Downloads I treat just as temporary directories for me and fair-game for other processes, so my workflows specifically don't keep any personal or sensitive data in common system directories.
Sounds like you want a client-side redirect blocker :-)
I found his books (which IMO are not that famous) because our local library had them. Otherwise I don't think I would have stumbled upon it.

Same applies to Walter Jon Williams and his Hardwired which was one of my early favorites. I was amazed to find out later that this book is one of inspirations for Cyberpunk tabletop games and Cyberpunk 2077.
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I know. It's well established.

You brought up photocopiers and you never said it wasn't a good metaphor so I don't know why you pre-pended "Again".

If it's not a good metaphor, that invalidates your point that:

"we didn’t ban [photocopiers] either despite them technically being a lot more useful for violation"

So now you're arguing against yourself.
And both would be forgotten by the time the next video would start.

Still, Vine was the epitome of 'to the deal'.
Thanks for the feedback and questions - really appreciate it.
The central thesis is that low capex matters more than high efficiency in a world where solar is cheap.
I have played with Kotlin Multiplatform. It's all very alpha quality in my opinion, and even more so if you use Jetpack Compose.

Lots of basic things are still in "incubator" mode, which means it can and will change, so you need to keep changing stuff on upgrades.

The technology is very cool and Kotlin is a great language. However, if you need to do something right now, there's no comparison with Flutter, which has been production ready for years.
Thanks for the ideas, and also thanks for the explanation (it's tempting to think nobody would need feature X, but when you put it like that I can totally see it makes sense!)

There is "yearly" already but I think your name of "annually" would be much better, so I'll add that naming, thanks!
For games, I think it's even worse on GNU/Linux systems, since most game developers mainly target Windows and sometimes completely ignore conventions for other platforms (possibly since some game engines have that "Build for Linux" button).

This also applies to game engines and their own conventions. For example Unity has Application::persistentDataPath[1], which uses $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (still a bit meh, since I wouldn't treat savefiles as "config", but at least some convention). However, some games tend to write those into Application::dataPath[1] (or even other random directories they see fit), which is supposed to be read-only and could possibly be outside of $HOME.

Fortunately the single one advantage of antivirus software out there seems to be that the above seems to break with some AV, so developers either tell their players to disable AV or they simply fix the issue. I made countless bug reports on this issue and so far it exclusively got fixed because of AV, so I'm using that as an argument for future reports.

While at least most of the Unity games I've packaged seem to adhere to these conventions, other games and game engines are a mixed bag and I've seen games dumping their stuff into $PWD to games writing to Windows paths (eg. /home/foo/SomeVendor\Somegame).

Patching these games is also very tedious, since some of them tend to get updates, so patching needs to be done in a way to be forward-compatible.

For example here is a patcher I wrote to get Factorio to adhere to XDG:

https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/blob/4690494feee20a62...

Here is an example for patching a Unity3d game that writes to Application::dataPath:

https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/blob/4690494feee20a62...

[1]: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-persist...

[2]: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-dataPat...
I have mixed feelings about it, the premise is interesting but the writing is very bad in my opinion. The pacing is all over the place and the dialogue is like aliens trying to imitate normal human conversation...

I would still recommend it to sci-fi fans, just don't expect a literary masterpiece.
Licenses are bound to the purposes specified by the license. So go read the fine print.
For the record, I believe you did the right thing. It's your work so you should use whichever license you like, and have users use your product on your own terms. It's just that passing non-OSI approved licenses as "Open Source" does tend to trigger strong responses.

OSS flies faster because people love the ability to use and reuse source code. But not everything must be OSS especially if the source code itself must be the source of income (thinking here of a mantra that's been repeated in HN several times, and which is very correct IMO: "Open Source is not a business model")

And yes you're right that it's better to go from restricted to open. The opposite direction has always been received with harsh criticism. Also you open yourself to the risk of a community forming around forking the project from the last commit that was OSS, and departing with their own thing form there. Unlikely, but technically possible.
+1 to this. I have been a MacOS-exclusive user for more than a decade now and `~/Library/Application\ Support/` is simply ugly and, dare I say, un-Apple like. It has a Window's "My Documents" vibe going on.
Risk obviously would. And it’s about the laws.
The university has lost its greek way of education, now its become facist. Rainbow facist to be exact.
Yep, in python function calls are not cheap, you’re usually better off avoiding them in tight loops.

Plus here on each iteration `int` has to be loaded from the globals before it can be called.
I haven't had a single employer that didn't blatantly lie to me during the hiring process. Infuriating stuff such as saying it's company policy to pay for training, and then refusing to do it. So my rule of thumb is that if it isn't in the contract, it's bullshit. But it aggravates me nonetheless.
let me guess, you are a full time JS dev? lol
FYI YouTube home screen does not show any videos if watch history is off
Looks like they really want you to enable watch history.
> e.g., when I was in my mid 20s

Lone Wolf?
The handpresso seems up your street:

https://www.handpresso.com/en/handpresso-pump-black-351.html
Neuromorphic Computing is already a thing, and Intel's already developing chips (Loihi 2).
But it's not as powerful as GPU's yet, and it only runs spiking neural networks.
> financial struggles

Talking about the general population, sure. But we're talking about software engineers, the most highly paid while at the same time the most accessible profession of all time.

There are high school dropouts making 5 times the national average wage in SWE, and that's not unusual at all - you have the ones making 10 times for the "unusual" category. A person that knows nothing can get a job that pays the national average wage in this industry.

I personally helped 7 people get from 0 to a job within a year. All of them are now (after 1-3 years of experience) making at least 5 times more than they did before they switched careers.
Interesting, I was looking back at https://sohl.substack.com/p/espresso-and-open-source-hardwar... yesterday night (posted on hn as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35320729), with a recent followup on the design.

I was thinking how much I'd like a really open and hackable machine... although I'd prefer one for pourover or siphon extraction. It doesn't seem there is any project like that, but there seem to be a demand for it.
The issue is that you know well enough where the dividing line is between a fully original article you write and one that plagiarizes. LLMs on the other hand don’t have that awareness, and can plagiarize by accident.
The problem with VR Gyms is that they reduce the value that people place on natural, beautiful habitats (when it comes to outdoor sports and exercise). Regular gyms do that a little too but VR Gyms are a next-level that could make going to the gym much more efficient and pleasant.

What this means is that fewer people will care about preserving natural areas. It's a small step towards a future where people care less and less about the natural world.

Another step in technology that seems like a good thing but on the whole is a step towards a completely conquered planet.
I just recently watched this Hoover Institution interview [1]. I really enjoyed how this guy thinks about time when it comes to education. The examples he gives are quite shocking.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0LUDSqPBrk
Poor Martin Odersky was demonstrating this fusion with Scala like 15+ years ago. But he's a nice guy so I'm sure he thinks the more the merrier!
Corteza is a 100% open-source low-code, rapid application development, business process and integration platform, created and maintained by Planet Crust.
I also liked "Never Split the Difference", I rarely read and enjoy books in that category.

Related, I got a lot out of "Blue Ocean Strategy", though that was more than a decade ago.
If your old Garmin is compatible with the Garmin app you can download the gpx file then open it with Garmin app and sync it to your Garmin edge. Not sure if moving the gpx file to your Garmin using a file manager will work.
1.109B times faster serving of finetuned LLMs
This enables you to chain and switch between thousands of finetuned LLMs.

A free notebook that lets you train a model using this optimization: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1QMeGzR9FnhNJJFmcHtm...

A walkthrough that shows how to finetune a Llama v2 model: https://lamini-ai.github.io/Examples/llama_v2_example

A blog explaining how to support 10,000 fine tuned Llama 2 models one server, and reduce the time needed to switch between them by 1.109 billion times: https://www.lamini.ai/blog/one-billion-times-faster-finetuni...

We were motivated to invent this optimization after users trained 5,758 trained different finetuned models in 3 weeks, and our servers were overloaded by the time needed to switch between so many different finetuned models.

Note that this speeds up inference on servers running multiple finetuned PEFT models. It does not speed up the training phase of fine tuning other than by a modest amount (e.g. 1-3x) from using PEFT. Sorry for the confusing title, this is a new concept and it is hard to cram this paragraph/blog into a title. Happy to update it if anyone can come up with a clearer title (that isn’t a page long).
There's multiplication by hashing, which is a very fun subject, look it up :-)
In all those SSR tools, my favorite is inertial.js, I think it combines the best of the both worlds. I am not sure why inertial wasn't getting more popularity though, anyone know why?
The cynical part of thinks that that might be a feature, not a bug.
> I would need to assume that I can solve a problem in polynomial time, and then find a contradiction

iirc that's actually how many of these proofs work.

> To me it is really hard to see a useful path forward from there.

yes, CS is hard.

there are resources online, that explain the general idea, e.g. [1]. But understand the specifics, you really do need a solid foundation in theoretical math and theoretical CS

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-proof-by-contradiction-in-co...
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You can measure time dilation at different distances from black hole, then extrapolate and see that time dilation goes to infinity at the event horizon.
Algae biodiesel could be put in regular trucks, is carbon neutral, and uses existing infrastructure. Additionally, Algae will be the only thing robust enough to survive >50'C temperatures, as hot lithium batteries also start to have issues.

Hydrogen has poor energy density (needs very large storage volumes), is expensive to handle safely, and still hits the equivalent of $13/l for petroleum gas. The field trials already profiled the degenerative nature of fuel cells, and problems with Hydrogen embrittlement.

I wager Goat Carts are the future, as most civilizations had them in their past. They are also far more radiation tolerant than primates. =)
I don't think that no one would create new software/music/books/movies/art/etc. without copyright. Humans have done so for millenia before, they still did so in absence of copyright protections. I don't see how this is not a serious alternative - the only major losers would be the middlemen, not the artists themselves.
Yes it's Dutch, will add translations soon. I like the OpenCycleMap suggestion. I am indeed looking for ways to highlight safe or nice roads by using OCM or maybe Strava segment data.
>But not 100% paid for right? And it might cost $1000-2000 depending on your family size.

Its the same plan, often worse.

Anyway, you can even calculate the value of that plan, say the cheapest healthcare.gov plan costs $1000/mo, you get it free through work, that is $12000 per year of compensation. Pretty substantial, although I've never seen someone get a free plan at work, though a union firefighter pays $20/mo and is harshly underpaid. For the max out of pocket, you can multiply that by the chance of hitting it per year.

But what really matters is the delta cost. Healthcare.gov is quite comparable to w2 jobs. Its often significantly better since you can shop around instead of the corrupt plans the company was sold by some insurance dealer.
"Never before in my life had I seen so many smart people working on the same goal"

I'm not sure why but the assumptions and naivety in this opening line bothers me. There are plenty of goals and problems that orders of magnitude more people are working on today.
I read it until I got to this bit:

> But in essence, electrolyzers are glorified electric resistors, with no more intrinsic complexity than a kettle that boils water and costs $15/kW, including free two day shipping from China!

That's patently false! Resistive heating and electrolysis are two completely different effects. Also, resistive heaters don't have to deal with issues like galvanic corrosion, that electrolysis involves.
You don’t have to “copyright” a creative work in Europe for it to enjoy copyright protection. It automatically does so by virtue of being a creative work.
We had no illusion that we could catch everything, especially if they were using proper encryption. If you can break modern encryption quickly enough to do it at 400 files per second then there are way more profitable things to do with that ability than running a file transfer service.

But even so there were several alerts per week. For comparison, we were doing around 40 million transfers per month at the time, so ~10 million per week.
This is great to come across. I had an employee bring me some years ago and I instantly became obsessed. I have two cultivars planted in my yard and got my neighbor to allow me to plant another in their yard. I think I'm 2 or 3 years out from getting fruit, but I'm still excited
Not caring is critical, IMO. It's a job, not your life, and everything you think matters can be taken away by the whims of management who have the authority to do so. If they care about something, then you are no longer allowed to.
Some ongoing research into this timeline: https://www.science.org/content/article/some-dinos-may-have-...
maxwell equations and laws of newton is the ultimate content. the rest is bullshit!
Hmm so I was trying with 3.5 actually.
I don’t think anyone is avoiding the problem, I think people are just unsure about what the best solution is. We could have replaced coal with nuclear in the 70s but that was ‘too risky’ for the average environmentalist, so we are putting out bets on developing renewables faster than climate changes occur.

We merely trade one risk for another, there is never a silver bullet. Most climate skeptics are happy to take the risk that the models aren’t accurate or the scientists doom predictions don’t occur. I think there’s a chance the models are wrong but I’d prefer to take the pain/risk of trying to reduce the potential for a problem before it’s too late.
I’m confused too, but perhaps they mean the move itself is powered by microk8s?
Thank you, this is pretty much what I needed.
> You don't have to eliminate cheating, just keep it acceptably low.

Of course. I just don’t think it would be feasible to keep it acceptably low. Just look at what’s happening in countries like India. The have state wide internet shutdowns in some areas during the exam day amongst other draconian measures..

> That would be the student's incentive but not the teachers

They would align over time due to student/parent pressure to focus entirely on tests (and teachers wouldn’t have any incentive not to do that).

> As for the point - if you're abandoning measuring progress, let's just not educate kids and save ourselves a ton of money.

Tests work fine when they are used an an indicator. Prioritizing the maximization of test scores over everything else is already an issue, your suggestion would just make it much worse.

Also I entirely disagree with the whole premise of this statement. e.g. Finland for instance doesn’t have any standardized tests besides the one you take in your last year before graduating high school.

And yet.. Finland’s educational system is widely considered to be one of the best in the world.
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> People invest in tape because it offers long term offsite storage, but vendors only offer drive life spans in the order of 4-6 years.

The exact same thing can be said of other storage technologies (HDD, SSD, etc).

Do you know why they do it? Because more bits keep getting created and no one is throwing away the previous bits, so they just keeping stacking up on each other.
Nintendo markets to children before they are too young to realize what is happening.

All of those claims are extremely valid.
It's interesting. I've gone the other direction. Everything as functions.

I've realized that things always need to change in unexpected ways. Objects are sticky, people just cram stuff into them instead of re-thinking the hierarchy properly.

There probably exists a really nice and cleanly separated object-hierarchy for a codebase at a given point in time, but requirements always evolve too rapidly to enjoy this for too long.
But allowing ASAT capabilities to go strongly asymmetric would be even more detrimental, especially in relative terms.
JavaScript is bad for graphically intense application for the same reasons Java, C#, and host of other language families are bad at it, they are garbage collected languages. Garbage collection imposes a processing jitter. That is certainly a valid use case for WASM, but I am not this take hold in the wild. Again, valid use cases aside its not what most developers want to use it for.
> That obviously P!=NP ... but your difficulty increases exponentially as n increases

> I am pretty sure there is something in this problem that makes it a not legal P/NP problem

It's not in the space of P and so isn't relevant to the problem, if I'm reading your post right, as it's exponential complexity
Only if you presume that considerably larger fraction of the hydrogen would leak, which is not a bad assumption. Anyway, use of hydrogen for grid storage does not require its transmission or distribution in pipelines, especially in the small pipes of local distribution networks for home/small business use where one might expect the most leakage.
I'm going to proof-read them anyway, but it's so easy to miss stuff when you're reading and writing all these things yourself.
it makes sense, poland is right next to romania
Maybe not Objectively 'Bad'. But they are not 10/10s in 2023, objectively.
Copyright law and ethics are not the same thing. I see no ethical problem violating copyright generally. It's illegal (or a tort) and has consequences, but that doesn't relate to ethics.
Firstly I would say that the grinder makes an outsize difference relative to cost so I would strongly recommend you first invest in something like a Mahlkohning Vario (this is what I have as a present from my lovely wife who just by pure coincidence also likes nice coffee).

Then I have a friend who is an ex-high-end-barista and gigantic coffee snob (like coffee snob's coffee snob) and insists that once you have a good grinder it's more important to get a reverse osmosis filter than a high-end espresso machine. Make of that what you will, but if you want to investigate that he swears by this book[1] and having drunk coffee at Colonna and Smalls in Bath (owned by one of the guys who wrote the book) I can say he might be on to something. Certainly every cafe that does amazing coffee has an RO filter.

I have an ECM entry-level machine and it's great. I dont' need (or ever use) the frothing parts unless we have guests but they do the thing they are supposed to and the main coffee bit works great. I wish it could get a bit more pressure but it makes a good cup of espresso if I tamp well and use nice beans (which, you should always use nice beans. There's really no excuse for that one).

In the UK you can get great home coffee equipment as well as advice from Bella Barista[2]. Probably most countries have a place like that but even if you're not in the UK I would look at what they have as being a good starting point.

[1] https://www.waterstones.com/book/water-for-coffee/maxwell-co...

[2] https://bellabarista.co.uk/
Delphi still has a big enough market to host an yearly conference in Germany, and otherwise there are occasional tracks on .NET/Windows conferences like BASTA.

.NET Forms is definitly as easy as VB6, even more so, because C++ was out of the picture.

VB required delving into VBX (C++), and even VB6 OCX doesn't support everything in COM, meaning some kind of controls also required diving into C++ for VB 6.
Hey that sounds similar to what I’m working on![0] Neat to hear about other implementations.

[0] https://resgen.app
Better middle ages than late ages. Catastrophes always happen after the late ages.