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I'm 52 and I care about new technology. If it looks like it improves things.

Most of the time that isn't the case and it's simply more useless abstraction and time wasting and marketing and resume building and scamming and ego very clever see!.

But it is worth looking into things briefly if they pass the initial 2 second smell test in my opinion. There is the occasional diamond in the dung heap that passes for modern technology.
> ultimately folks can't entirely focus on just doing what they like to do

True, but companies can allow that when there is enough diversity in the team, instead of insisting that everyone fit into the exact same mold.
We'll always need a human in the loop to make sure the code is correct and does what it's intended to do. I will be one of those (paid) humans.
> the collective will of an entire continent

If you ask the average man on the content "would you like your behaviour tracked?" he will indeed reply "No!"

But if you ask him "If you have to choose between seeing ads for women's clothing or ads relevant to your interest, which would you choose?", then he will pick the option that requires behavioural tracking.
Are you sure it's artificial and not related to yields? As in, it's more likely you get a dead pixel on a larger screen.

The answer would be "chiplets" of course, assembling bigger screens out of smaller ones. At the hobby leven, I think something decent could be built out of a few second hand kindle screens, if you plan the seams as part of the aesthetic.
Better name.

One says sleep on a stranger's smelly couch and impede on them in their home. Good for broke and social travellers perhaps.

The other says informal self-service hotel, with the freshness, easyness and carefreeness of air.

A lot goes in a name.
Also exemplified in an XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/2500/
Without regulations I'd need to grow my own food, though.
Why does the author use an explicit fence in the first and second example instead of just cmpxchg with acquire-release semantics (std::memory_order_acq_rel in C++) (and they already load with acquire semantics in the reader example[1])? Acquire semantics prevent later program-order loads and stores from being reordered before the seqlock acquisition. Edit: I guess Java does not have an Acq-Rel compare_exchange method, for some reason, but you could use the stronger seq-cst form. (I think it is somewhat moot on x86, where they all boil down to the same instruction.)

Also as a meta consideration, I wonder in what situations you would use a seqlock. I would worry about cache line contention on the seqlock for this mechanism, compared to something like hazard pointers. And frequent writers can arbitrarily block readers -- I guess if that is an issue, you're very far from a good application of this mechanism.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase%2F9%2Fdocs%2Fapi%2F%2F/java/l...
So instead of reading commentary masquerading as "news", here's the actual group doing this:

https://www.safestreetrebel.com/

https://sfba.social/@SafeStreetRebel

(Note: news orgs don't want to send you outside their site, so no links for you on NPR, etc.)

I think it would be fair to say this is a climate emergency response group, to protest getting personal transit off the roads, and start re-wilding millions of square kilometers of asphalt.
I never said scripting languages can't have a compiler.

I meant a compilation step means you aren't interpreting anymore.

Apologies for my inexact verbiage.
I heard the idea that Apple should buy Discover and thought there was no way…

Apparently Discover has a market cap of “only” $22 billion. $30 billion or so would definitely do the job; and that’s only, what, less than a quarter of Apple’s cash reserves?

Seems almost… cheap for buying an entire freaking payment network.
On FreeBSD `du` also doesn't necessarily go e the right info due to us, where having multiple filesystems on the same pool is easy and simple. This leads to many filesystems reporting same free space. Right way there is to check the zpool directly ...
Them setting terms for insurance and likely de-facto cotrolling all the firms' financial capabilities through their mandated fintech services surely helps hedging the risk, too.
HTTP early hints still exists and can achieve similar things as server push without wasting bandwidth.
While that would work as an estimate of total sq meters, applying that scale in a localized area would have too much of an impact on wind/currents, inversion, and the downstream of those changes.

First targets would be urban heat islands and airports. Second would be industrial and manufacturing facilities. Regulations and Nimby would likely mean manufacturing and industrial would be more quick to adapt for use.

The case for urban heat islands is pretty straightforward, but the application with airports would be to mitigate the heat trapping that takes place, especially overnight. Exhaust from flights result in more heat being trapped, similar to urban heat island but due to atmospheric effects and not solely due to surface materials and lack of greenspace.
It's an interesting defense. It looks like the coming election combined with the weather and effects (fire, flood, etc.) this year, these questions of blame and who knew what when, and what they did about it, will be a large vector of its own. Possibly one that will drive us to a survivalism (formerly humanism) orientation rather than one of personal benefit / protection.

If you think through where we would be now if Exxon took the lead and drove the change to other energy systems, reshaping government and international power, who is to say they wouldn't have been in an even more powerful and profitable position now - and that would be saying something given their profits and access to power today.
It still has a 32 bit M profile core for the real time stuff. It just also has a A profile core complex bolted to the side of it too.
Yeah a stale repo isn't bad as long as there aren't outstanding issues to be worked. It is still a bad sign in evolving tooling environments like java c++ or rust, but lisp is pretty stable at this point too...
Something with wood.
Or become a gardener.
Are they forced? You would imagine contractual in someway they might be but should the owners be able to tender out and shop around ?
Your 3rd and 4th point makes me wonder about your hardware as well as the distro and desktop environment you use to have that kind of experience. My recipe for trouble-less Linux installation is to use hardware that has well-known compatibility with Linux (Thinkpad for me), as well as a popular distro and desktop environment (Manjaro+KDE or more recently EndeavourOS+Gnome for me).
Humans do not train on video, the idea of a video, or even a frame, is a high level abstraction within the human brain.
That's something we would have to figure out on the way - especially due to hallucinations. See the post under this for ideas on how I would try to solve that.
One possible path is architect. You still code but your goal is more to steer the team to solutions and train engineers. Notice problem patterns early and help teams not put themselves into those positions.

Another is a manager. Your job is to help engineers fill their work plate up. Help them progress in their career. Help the team set policy on how to work with prod eng and design. Help connect people when decisions need to be made. Basically you make the team 2x or 3x more productive productive.
Yes! We switched from electronic technology to bio technology.
So do shift, control, and function, in these same contexts. Like these modifier keys, Option's primary function isn't "switching the function of other keys". Its primary function is, and always has been, as a secondary shift key for entering text.
It is always striking to me how many of my coworkers truly do not care about solving a problem or getting things done. If they aren't exploring some new database, language, tool, or whatever then they just lose interest and try to force one of those things into the codebase.

Oddly enough, I feel like I have some friends that are the same way in their hobbies. It's crazy to me how they'll buy a new board game for $80 and play it once, maybe twice and never look at it every again.

This constant novelty-chasing is probably what both groups are really after.
Idk if fish has ever shipped builtins that way, but doing so is pretty conventional and doesn't normally put those executables on the PATH. It's what libexec is for: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s07.htm...

If you wanna add a builtin like that to your own distribution of fish, you could do it cleanly by keeping those binaries in /usr/lib or /usr/libexec and then wrapping them in a fish function that ships in fish's install prefix. (This is basically how fish's Python scripts for generating completions from manpages are shipped today.)
I feel you on this.

I started using Gentoo on my personal machines (Desktop, Laptop, NAS) after I needed to understand it for work. Eventually I fell in love with the developer workflow that it allows.

That was seven years ago. These days I feel like I've spent so much time tinkering for little to no benefit. I've been through LFS a few times so I don't feel that being a Gentoo user made me understand Linux any more than I already did.

So much "emerge --sync && emerge -1 sys-apps/portage && emerge -auUDN @world" and then fix USE flags problems and mask problems and keep rerunning the last command until it actually works.

I somewhat self host everything right now - VPN into my home network to access my NAS. But the user experience of documents and media just feels so poor compared to existing cloud services that I'm tempted to just give up on homelab stuff.

The upfront price of 10+ TB hard drives is hundreds of dollars a drive, you need to replace them every 5 years or so to "trust" them, you need redundant disks because you can never trust them, you need a backup solution, time investment to make backups, and the price of power in the Bay Area means you are spending several hundred a year on power to run the gear. Whereas I could just get 10 TB for $50/month from a cloud provider. It's not like I actually watch or listen to any of the blurays or music rips I've made, which represent most of my data...

I bought a PineNote in early 2022 hoping to replace my reMarkable. I've worn out the battery but I don't want to give money to a company that intentionally makes swapping the battery nearly impossible. Along with the fact they're useless at work because you can't directly use a cloud service, you have to proxy through reMarkable's own service.

I thought it'd be fun to tinker on but then I actually developed a healthy social life and exercise routine again and have found little motivation to stay inside when I'm not working.
I guess he wasn't aware. I use fish, and I'm learning this now too. I probably really should give the fish docs a read-through, as I imagine it could significantly improve my shell efficiency.
There is nothing that immunizes console and PC games from the rise of microtransactions. I would expect the relative effect to be similar. There are just many more phones than consoles.
Almost everyone sometimes wonders "what if I had chosen a different path", but it's very important to note that that means that you still would have wondered that if you had in fact taken the other path!

It's just human nature.

Whatever you choose to do in the moment (continue illustrating, stop illustrating and go to medical school, some third thing), pour your heart into it, and you can find satisfaction in that.
In my opinion, saying that without explaining what they misunderstood / what you disagree with them on is both snarky and unsubstantial enough to fall below the line of the HN guidelines. Especially as it's not clear to me that their interpretation isn't what you meant, and it's clear that they are arguing in good faith rather than intentionally misunderstanding. Though their last paragraph was itself snarky enough that I can see why you might have wanted to react in kind (not that that means you should). /my two cents
Fair enough. Google Maps is actually pretty solid and usually there.
To be honest, personally I’d argue for a stronger stance: the right to not be solicited. I think all advertising is poisonous and insidious and leads to the things you describe, not just targeted behavioral profiling. So I’d say the missing right that we need to codify lies somewhere in that realm.

Still I think we’re a little stuck on the consent bit. If 98% of society consents to be solicited, all the problems of scale come back. So we need a framework to declare that the power granted to solicitation networks, if centralized, is too great and either reserve it for the gov’t or ideally outlaw it.
ya hook em with a free dose first! every drug dealer knows this I thought.
Just a guess, but maybe its because there are different sources of the chicken, by region?
The mechanism of using a general purpose computer is so engaging that people stop to argue about the color of the bike shed instead of attending to the conceptual,world where the problem they are trying to solve lies. People spend their mental energy optimizing trivial things instead of writing the great American novel of our century or creating an infrastructure to allow decentralized, non-advertising based products that bring the benefits of networked communications and less of the harm.

At least I think that is the point.
Modifier keys feel like a Wild West. I really wish the semantics were:

One key owned by the OS.

One key owned by the App.

One key owned by the Context.

If this were true, configuring keys for web apps, for example, would be far less of a mess. A website would only own the context key and would never fear clobbering other hotkeys.
Built to run an Open Source OS, but you still need their proprietary cruftware to program it.
It's like real estate development. You buy a land, develop it, and sell it at a higher price.

Same here. You buy a small business, improve it by adapting your solution, and sell it back at higher price.

Of course, the "improve"-ment part better be real, but it sounds like a win-win business model if properly conducted.
Me too have developed an aversion to new frameworks, but mostly because the old ones become outdated and go out of support so fast. Feels like we're forced to keep updating and switching tools without any real gain, just to stay compatible with the infrastructure.
I would not expect PRC to conform to any notion of freedom, so it's not terribly surprising or relevant to the discussion.
> The Onedrive portion is used sparingly, and I would never count on it for backups.

Depends how you use it I guess. Mine works as a backup target for Arq backup, and holds encrypted, versioned client backups.

> Backups here are 23TB, reduced to 7.5 after dedup.

How much of that data is stuff you can easily download again ?

While we’re nowhere near professional photographs, we do take around 10k photos every year, and our family photo library stretches back almost two decades, and yet our family photo backup is “only” around 3TB, and 1.3TB compressed and deduplicated (quite a few RAW images there). Yearly growth is below 100GB, I know because I make yearly M-disc archives of the previous years photos, and they fit on a 100GB BD-XL.

Besides the photo backup, our documents, school work, music collection (ripped from CDs), purchased ebooks and more is less than 500GB (compressed, deduplicated)

I could probably save a couple hundred GB by leaving out music and ebooks, as the music is still on the CDs, and ebooks can (probably) be downloaded again, or they’re outdated enough that it doesn’t matter.

The absolute minimum would be our photos, which naturally are irreplaceable. Even documents will be outdated rather fast, and are mostly only kept for nostalgia.
I pay $25/year for a small woocommerce web store running on a VPS... Including domain name

Inflation happens because people don't like to shop (or perhaps because they don't know how to)

I'll give you the address if you like native american aromatherapy
Are you interested in creating a side project while you carry on your career? You don't need to be the world's best programmer to start a profitable business.
A propeller. On the early prototypes of the Mac, that key was used to fire the torpedoes.
What proprietary cruftware are you referring to? I've only used their Cortex-M devices. Is the register-level API too complicated on these?
This is going to sound mean, but I don't intend it that way. But a clear question calls for a clear answer.

The reason why your solution is bad is because your solution only solves the problem for certain imagined values of 'problem'.

We don't know what the playback user story is for OP -- is it a raspberry pi? is it a librem 5? -- and there's no way to know that the user's problem is in fact solved, as you claim.

Your solution makes assumptions, and there's no way to know if they're reasonable, because this is HN, not Best Buy, and some of us are on some pretty interesting (and DRM-free) hardware. That's why it's bad.
Yes, I know; they use pyinstaller to distribute binaries. You can get the source but setting up a working Python environment is the same problem that OP is complaining about; they don't want to do that. You can avoid it by taking the self-contained release build just like Windows users do. yt-dlp does a really great job on this.
We are already five years late in autonomous vehicles replacing all truck drivers. We will see if we even have autonomous driving "long before" 33 years have passed. "AGI" (rebranded AI after "AI" failed to deliver) will of course still not be a thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...

>In the 1960s, the evidence for the warming effect of carbon dioxide gas became increasingly convincing. Some scientists also pointed out that human activities that generated atmospheric aerosols (e.g., "pollution") could have cooling effects as well.

>During the 1970s, scientific opinion increasingly favored the warming viewpoint. By the 1990s, as the result of improving the fidelity of computer models and observational work confirming the Milankovitch theory of the ice ages, a consensus position formed: greenhouse gases were deeply involved in most climate changes and human-caused emissions were bringing discernible global warming.

It's a good Wikipedia article. Exxon scientists predicted climate change, but they were also in communication with other scientists including Edward Teller, one of the key inventors of thermonuclear weapons, who was a significant public figure at the time. They didn't emphatically denounce their own technology, but they weren't radically ahead of the knowledge of other scientists at the time.
You literally cut and pasted a bibliography from the first hit on global climate change denial from an organization long associated with corporate propaganda.

https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/today-i...

Nice.

Funny thing: I can't seem to find any of those articles, only references to them on other climate denial pages.
Fountains of diamonds erupt from Earth's center as supercontinents break up
Unless they're explicitly saying that you'll be getting long read sequencing, what you'll be getting is a paired-end short read sequencing, likely Illumina (although similar output can be achieved using BGI and Element machines as well). You'll be getting fragments of DNA which have been size-selected to around 400-500bp in length and then sequenced 150bp from both ends, with an unsequenced gap of unknown length in the middle (and possibly an overlap if the fragment is smaller than 300bp), sufficient to cover the mappable parts of the reference genome with around 30 or 100 sequence reads on average. That data can be supplied in a couple of FASTQ files (usually gzipped). They may offer to align that against a reference genome for you, where you'll get a BAM file - make sure you have the same reference genome handy to compare against. They may also offer to detect variants, that is places in the sequenced DNA that are different to the reference, in which case you'll get a VCF file.

Because the sequencing uses short reads, it will not be able to resolve parts of the genome that are repetitive with a repeat unit longer than ~150bp. You'll have all the jigsaw pieces from the puzzle, but you won't be able to reconstruct some parts of the picture. Long read sequencing can help with those, but that's more expensive.
Would be interesting to additionally see JPEG XL.
I too see issues with advertising as such. It has created an unsatiable society that cannot find balance even though it churns through an ever growing slice of the planet. But I feel it is a longer term problem about how to organize markets and disseminate product availability in a less manipulative way. In a strange way the internet is actually a pull medium that should orient people more towards seeking information rather than being pushed stuff. In a sense the walled gardens and the timelines aim to replicate a push relationship (that was at its heyday during the TV era).

But I really think the risks from personal data based profiling are more serious and broad based. If these practises get normalized for adtech they are normalized, period. Every industry will want to get in the act. Car manufacturers will want to grab and sell behavior, supermarkets, banks, toothbrushes, fridges, thermostats and doorbells will want to do the same.

But ultimately I think we might be agreeing on the why things are happening as thus underlies everything: Unhinged pursuit of profit (= claims on society) without any care about the impact on that same society.

The various risks we are discussing will only keep multiplying and aggravating if we dont find more effective harnesses to channel these behaviors towards more positive goals.
It's often important to help management define what impact is rather than to let them define it for you. If you want quality and stability to be included in impact, define a way to measure it and then get management to sign off on it being impact worthy. Our infra team has dash boards for keeping CI times low, false positive and false negative rates low, etc. Simply not regressing on those metrics is a daunting task and they have managed to convince management of that fact. As a result, their impact is measured by those dashboards which they defined. You can do this on any team by defining quality KPI such as the rate of customer reported bugs, customer sentiment, number and length of outages over some time period, etc.
* Clicking on the [a] ---- [a] (which is the audio stream, I assume) and pressing "Del" does not delete it.

* Adding an audio filter, tremolo, makes the video stream disappear. Then adding a video filter makes it reappear.

* possibility to clear the log?

* What is the dude saying who gets punched in the face? "It's a pepeyes (?), we come kind of a sample" ?!
Also neutrino detectors and gravitational wave detectors allow to observe the very early universe. Until something like 300K years after the Big Bang the universe was too hot for atoms to form and so it was full of particles that block light. But the universe became clear for neutrinos a lot earlier and for gravitational waves even earlier (think it's milliseconds past the Big Bang).
A reverse indented Python-based language with “empty;” whitespace
My impression is that By Now Pay later schemes target people who by circumstance can't afford to "pay now"; resulting in overwhelmingly exploitative practices, constantly trying to nudge people towards BNPL who might struggle with the debt. Can someone elucidate for me the supposed benefit of the system?
Sorry, I updated my reply after thinking a bit more carefully.

To put my point in short: I don't think we should call something that has data to back it up and the intention to get to the truth misinformation in the context of this discussion. Regardless how it's labelled by authorities.