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> Actually it's worse than that they used to have a TUI installer but then removed it

Not sure what you're referring to here. Archinstall [1] is relatively recent [2]. I used it a few weeks ago to quickly yeet a machine into Arch for some testing. Worked flawlessly and had the machine from live boot -> Arch install on root media in under 5 minutes.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall
[2]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Does-Archinstall
Here's how to reduce roundtrips:

* Support TLS 1.3 + HTTP/2 or HTTP/3.

* Reduce the number of different hosts that you connect to. The optimal number is 1.

That's it.
Why would you need text-like XML if you get a good tool that converts to a more useful data entry format? Wouldn't you just use more efficient binary encoding for storage/interchange, while converting to something user-UI-friendly?
It’s stable and simple. I can run through it in 20 minutes including disk encryption and X.
Delaying the 2030 ICE ban was inevitable. Moving it to 2035 puts it in line with the EU.

(But it'll probably get delayed again. You can't just price the poor off the roads nationwide and expect the economy not to nosedive. As well as charging options for people without large detached homes with private driveways/garages, we need affordable used EVs, and we need to be sure thet battery packs in those older vehicles won't be utterly worthless)
Given cochlear implant, the in principle risk here is where (in the brain) and what reversibility.

The secondary questions are huge. Do they offer no question indemnities for life, against loss of brain function or other medical catastrophe?

And how the hell have we arrived at a world where this is unpaid? That's truly wierd. Even poor slobs testing drugs in Africa are paid. Is there some "sign me up" list Musk has been running?
Thank you for playing with our demos and finding this issue!

We'd welcome very much if you could reproduce the steps and report an issue:
GH: https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/issues
Discord: https://discord.com/channels/933657521581858818/107968886985...
I work at FAANG and have no degree. Checking for degrees used to be a thing but I don't think anyone does that anymore.

I had the same feeling as you (regretting not doing traditional CS). I ended up studying it on my own and really recommend it as I find that it made me into a much better engineer.
It's worth remembering that the poorest, those that can't afford a car or can only afford 1 car for the family, are reliant on public transit. But yes, making driving expensive often ends up hurting the lower-middle class the most because they usually live in the least walkable areas due to historical redlining and generally commute the furthest. The fact that this is a regressive tax is a big talking point for keeping driving cheap.

The problem is, the alternative is to throw money at a public transit system and nobody wants to do that either. You can make the taxes highly progressive, but even then, I doubt anyone would agree. In general the only thing to do is what activist groups are doing already; fight the local institutions (DOTs, planning departments, city council, etc.) to make the changes necessary to make getting around without a car viable, fast, comfortable, and cheap.
> those with the superset of information will always have more the capability to build a better map.

Technical capabilities. But not incentives, and not even capabilities without the qualifier "technical", for the simple reason that they as companies can't decide to not do the evil or stupid thing for the sake of not doing an evil or stupid thing, only ever for other reasons. The bright people at Google or Apple can't decide "fuck it, let's just do something that's actually good instead of what middle management and fucking marketing thinks is software". They do not have that option, any rando is more free (though not necessarily capable) to make something great than anyone at any of these large "players". OSS can turn bad and be run into the ground too, of course, but not necessarily, while these giants pump out crap because there is no way they couldn't.
This is a short list of issues many people are dealing with right now:

- affording heating

- affording food

- affording their mortgage

- being kicked out of their rented accommodation

- unable to find somewhere to rent

- unable to afford somewhere to rent

- badly maintained rented properties

- bad public transport making commutes miserable

- increasing petrol prices

- unaffordable nursery fees

- long NHS wait times

- unable to find an NHS dentist

- crime

Please explain why and how privacy can rank above this on a day to day basis about things they have the energy to care about. You kind of acknowledged this but then disregard it
It's possible to style the page Reader View uses by creating new files in FF's folders somewhere...
I'm not sure about the problem? You are free to play or not the game, no one forces you to buy it or play it, it's your time and money.

Gaming On Mac should be illegal, using mac should be illegal as well.
I understood the article above saying we could finishing colonizing most of the galaxy in little time, say 1000 years. But the galaxy is much larger than 1000 light years so without FTL travel (impossible afawk), that's why I said you can't do it.

But were you saying "get started on this in 1000 years" instead of finish in 1000 years?
The article assumes the caller compresses the blobs.
XLB: Accelerated Lattice Boltzmann (XLB) Based on Jax for Physics-Based ML
Then again, Gradle has come to show why that is a terrible idea.

I think at some point 24 out of 28 Gradle projects I had access to at a certain customer had variations in either kotlin/Groovy style or the way they did or didn't use variables, how they did or didn't do loops or maps and what not.

With Maven you (or someone who know Maven) can immediately look at a rather small, very standardized file and start making educated guesses and so can an IDE.

With Gradle you sometimes have to run it to actually know what it will do.
> Based on stories I've heard from people work in industry, every major ISP in the UK keeps DNS query logs and "internet connection records" and makes these available to authorities (without a warrant)

there's no "story". it's the law in many countries:

> In many countries, ISPs are legally required to monitor and store data about your browsing history for an extended period of time. This is called mandatory data retention. This data is used for policing, government surveillance, and sometimes even advertising.

> The length of time that ISPs must retain data varies by country. The U.S. government requires ISPs to keep records of customers’ internet history for a minimum of 90 days, while the UK and European Union requires ISPs to keep browsing records for up to 12 months.

6 months: Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Sweden

1 year: Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, UK

18 months: Latvia

2 years: Australia, Poland
Pretty much, server rooms still exist in offices but they'll mostly be for the network infrastructure, with most workloads including email and storage having moved to the cloud. Office365 is a really tempting offering, compared to operating your own servers + staff.
https://www.androidauthority.com/eu-smartphone-updates-rules...

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...

> Maybe I don't understand your question but it seems totally unrelated to

The discussion title is "Designing mobile phones and tablets to be sustainable" and lists the following aims:

- mobile phones and tablets are designed to be energy efficient and durable

- consumers can easily repair, upgrade and maintain them

- it is possible to reuse and recycle the devices.

This hence includes both repair and support and according to the linked article for N years. Seems very relevant.
n% of a multibillion dollar company? The shareholders would be out for blood!
> This violates fundamental principles about anonymous and simple access that has existed since the beginning of the Internet. You shouldn’t have to show your ID to get online.

My current hypothesis is that this will start happening within the next few years anyway, regardless of such laws - there will come a point when spammers start making massive use of LLMs to post to forums, comment sections, chat rooms, etc., and there doesn't seem to be a way to defend against that taking over your websites, unless you implement a "one ID-verified person = one account" type policy.

Am I wrong about that? Are there any other reasonably implementable solutions that people have been thinking about?
I had a single user whose machine would have intermittent disconnections while compiling his codebase. Not every time, but some of the time and every day, at that. This was back in the day when compiling the linux kernel was a 1hr+ task.

The key piece of evidence was when we moved a printer into his office, and it had the same disconnects, at the same times. Every day around midday. Not one disconnection, mind you - starting at about 11 the disconnects would get more and more frequent. From noon to one it was every few minutes. In the afternoon and evening it was just fine. It just so happened that the engineer would work in the morning, and his first compiles if the day were around that time. So, compiles were a red herring.

In the end the problem was the kitchen one floor down from his office, where a microwave was heating up peoples' lunches and causing enough EMI to disrupt (in those days rather brittle) wifi. We bought them a new microwave, and the disconnects stopped.
About 15 years ago I implemented "cache namespacing" for memcached, where you build a final cache key for a stored item (e.g. "profile_page") by doing an initial multiget cache query for all the "namespace" version values (e.g "user_123", "team_456" might be needed for "profile_page"), which you combine together as a prefix for the final cache key.

You can then invalidate any final cache key that uses one of the namespaces by incrementing the namespace key.

I haven't come across this technique mentioned elsewhere since, but it's very useful.

See the namespaces section in the now 404ing memcached FAQ
https://web.archive.org/web/20090227062915/http://code.googl...

I guess nosql, edge caching and materialised views make it less applicable than it used to be (when inelastically scaling single/replicated SQL instances were the only game in town and taking load off them was vital).

Or is this technique now a first class feature of various cache client SDKs?
I was talking about devices mostly. The worst offender I know of is google and Android. I think they just settled of court in a similar matter.
I think the vacuum story gets retold because it's so close to real-life stories.

The UPS on a server I manage would trip once a week around the same time. The old story came to mind and sure enough, once a week it was time to vacuum and someone would plug in a vacuum cleaner into the same circuit (700W vacuum cleaner on a 100V/15A circuit), causing enough voltage dip to kick the UPS into gear.
I mean of course it could. Much like we have parking minimums, we could just mandate bike locker minimums. There's already a robust bike locker program in the area called Bikelink so it would just be about expanding the program. The problem is nobody has lobbied the government to do this yet and updating code like this is hard because maintaining the status quo is easy. Developers will also undoubtedly fight it because it raises costs.
> so for some hardware it might mean that when it gets released you only have noticeable less then 6 years of kernel support

Or they could just upgrade the kernel to a newer version. There's no rule that says that the phone needs to run the same major kernel version for its entire lifetime. The issue is that if you buy a sub €100 phone, how exactly is the manufacturer supposes to finance the development and testing of never versions of the operating system? It might be cheap enough to just apply security fixes to an LTS kernel, but moving and re-validating drivers for hardware that may not even be manufactured quickly becomes unjustifiable expensive for anything but flagship phones.
I don't really write C too much, but I thought `if err = functionWithErrorReturn() { handleError(err) }` was a somewhat common idiom.
> Trains have been electric for a few decades

But not all train lines are electrified.

There are now Hydrogen-based trains in Northern Germany for such tracks.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-railway-firm-ushers-in-new-era-...
You’re talking to a community that hates discord and more because they don’t own it. They’re afraid of enshitification of platforms they have no control over. You’ll win people over with self hosting, not promises of free or managed here.
I was thinking more along that rate limit might not be high enough with industrial stuffs, they generally don't like e.g. polling at 125Hz.
Thanks for the tip - appreciated
You can be both right. I would say that ClickHouse is a focused system - it is really really good at the things it's good at, and it is not good at the rest.

Anecdote: I tested ClickHouse as possible replacement of Trino+DeltaLake+S3 for some of our use cases.

When querying a precomputed flat tables it was easily 10x to 100x faster. When running complex ETL to prepare those tables, I gave up when CTAS with six CTEs that takes Trino 30 seconds to compute on the fly turned into six intermediate tables that took 40 minutes to compute, and I wasn't even halfway done.

The tricky part is, how do you know whether your use case fits? But you have to ask this question about all the "specialized tools", including Pinot.
Study leetcode and system design. That's enough.
You don't need a CS degree and you don't need certs once you've established yourself.

I've been in SRE or SRE-adjacent roles at Amazon, Microsoft, Dropbox, and now a quant hedge fund (the first three in the US, the last in London). My only degree is in English lit.

Your hardest step is getting into your first job with good name recognition in the tech industry. For this, your best bet isn't certs, it's networking -- find someone who can refer you, which will get you past the automated resume screening and get your resume in front of a hiring manager, at which point your degree and certs don't matter.
the change was demanded a long time ago by civil society organisations.

the opposition is criticising the government for watering it down (for example: the opposition wanted VPNs to be made illegal).

there is widespread approval of anything that curbs the power of internet companies.
Well, if you are just telling me outright in my face, that all democracies devolve into massive populism like this, then yes, I would definitely prefer a different system, of course.

I most certainly don't approve a dictatorship of the majority.
I don't remember the time that online certificates from MIT, Berkeley, etc would have been anti signals.

https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-programming/massachusetts...
Ask HN: Best resources to learn game development (with Godot)?
Which books, tutorials, lectures or videos do you recommend for an experienced software engineer who wants to learn game development? Ideally something project-based that builds a working prototype end-to-end.
I have a book on toxic masculinity on my shelf, and it is written as a deep exploration of psychology, archetypes, etc.

The usual rhetoric I hear about toxic masculinity is very far away from the contents of that book. It is really easy to use that phrase in an aggressive way. Though, interestingly enough, Pixar’s Buzz Lightyear movie was written by someone who has thoroughly studied this. By that token, so can the contrast between Iron Man and Captain America in the MCU.

Ironically enough, some of the very problems brought up by the right can be understood in an insightful way with this lens.
U sure?
echo -e "GET /../.. HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" | nc localhost 8888
I, for one, am not apathethic, but still feel completely powerless. Politicians do not represent me, the people have stopped protesting because it's been outlawed and it's completely useless.

But I am still looking to spend my energy in decentralised, fully-encrypted networks, I'm still banging on about the sham that is our democratic Western world, and researching modern technological ways to protest against the status quo (agorism, etc.)

It's small but honest work, yet the vast majority of people, here included, think working with the system and the thieves is better than accepting we've been lied to for decades.

But the point is, we are powerless against any decision Westminster does. We are all waiting to vote the other party next year, and do you truly believe they will step back from this bill? After all, they too care about the children, and it is us that want to harbour pedophiles.

(I am thoroughly disgusted by how major newspapers have framed this law as a win, or relegated it to a footnote.)
Microsoft does it too, Windows 11 versions have a 2-year support lifecycle.
Windows 11 21H2 will reach end of support this next october.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file
Lol I’ve sank hundreds of hours on Terraria since I bought it 2 months ago, while ToTK languishes in a drawer. Terraria is so amazing.
>HN has to be age-gated now.

"May contain nuts."
Creepy Sidenote: Estonians had to escape from Sweden too because they feared Social-Democrats will hand them over to Russians. https://eu.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/flagler/2...
> Based on stories I've heard from people work in industry, every major ISP in the UK keeps DNS query logs and "internet connection records" and makes these available to authorities (without a warrant)

Correct - this is due to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.

The list of agencies that can access internet connection records without a warrant is baffling (and scary): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016#...
the opposition is criticising the government for watering down the law. they wanted it to go a lot further (for example making VPNs illegal).

there is widespread support for rules against the internet.
The emphasis should be placed on the 'cost PER install' to understand the uproar.

It might be a reasonable expectation to pay for Unity based on how many games you've sold, that way Unity's revenue scales with your own.

Pricing by individual sales would do this. And it'd be reasonable to track too, via online sales platforms, or even financial auditing if Unity ever suspected foul play.

However, pricing by install raises a few issues:

1) The costs scale faster than your sales, as users will install 1+ times. New computer, upgraded devices, multiple devices, problems with game corruption. There are tonnes of reasons for users to reinstall a game. Now a developer has to pay Unity for those reasons, despite them being nothing to do with Unity, in fact some of them could be the fault of the Unity libraries.

2) Bad actors. If you want to review-bomb a new game because it's bad or too woke for you then there's a new technique! Just install the game loads, hell someone might even make a simple script to do it for you, easy 10, 100, 1000 installs go nuts. Your actions now directly cost the developer!

3) DRM. Installs then need to be tracked. That means the game has to come with its own self-reporting DRM to identify how many times it has been installed so that the developer can be charged accordingly. Developers who don't like DRM can't use Unity any more!

4) Other issues like charity games built on Unity. Unity have covered this scenario but it's still a potential worry under certain scenarios, like older games being re-released for charity drives, will they still cause install charges?

The fact of the matter is that Unity has been thriving with its existing pricing model. The more people that use Unity the more money they make already. It's a scaling audience, it doesn't need a scaling pricing model to be profitable, let alone one that scales based on installs instead of game sales.
He's either being deliberately quite dishonest or is genuinely naive in suggesting that "individualized transport" is an alternative to public transportation. At this point I honestly do not know, he's shown himself at times to be both.

I'd be curious what he thinks traffic in Tokyo would look like if even half of the commuters on the subway (~80k pph for each train) drove cars around the city instead. I suspect he'd then suggest that a network of new roads be built underground to alleviate this additional traffic, which may work but at that point you'd probably just be better of building some more capacity in the subway network ...
If you are shooting for some sort of cloud technical support / technical sale kind of role, I do think cloud certainly in the relevant cloud provider will help, but they are not necessary.

I think the carts mostly exists to satisfy corporate clients
Wow, thanks for posting that. I wasn't away RMB was not used that much up to now. US + Euro is 9/12 of that trading on the imf.org link. 9/12, 75%! Maybe a little of that could switch to rmb in trading with china, but as china is such a huge economy in the world, close to the US in many ways (ignoring their current problems/shrinkage), isn't the minuscule amount of RMB transactions just another sign that everyone is using dollars.

How much is the total US transactions with China, would like to compare to the charts to see theoretical maximum.
Capslock probably turns on an extra LED on your keyboard, thus increasing your energy usage. :)
Color can be tricky too. Colorblind or bad contrast. Terminals do bold, italic, underline and strikethrough.
Bro did you not see the results of the research paper? U-shaped curve isn't inline with medical advice from the status quo.

Given that evidence... the advice given to you by doctors is literally in the same class as homeopathy and anti-vaxxing.
"when the sun in fact does proton/proton, proton/deuterium, and helium 3/helium 3 fusion at a relatively slow rate under extremely high pressure."

We actually don't know how the Sun does fusion. If we did, we'd have created it here on Earth already.
Because. The "new right to repair regulations" aim to improve sustainability and that includes repair and support and upgrades, e.g. see

https://www.androidauthority.com/eu-smartphone-updates-rules...

> Right to repair doesn’t require someone else to do the work for you for free.

The term maybe not, but the proposed legislation totally does. Same as warranties or customer protection or not using toxic materials or ... ; none of that is "for free" to the manufacturer, but it is mandatory if you want to be allowed to sell your product.
> Roads mean cars, bikes, motorbikes, vans, lorries, and emergency services vehicles can all get around with very little coordination.

Right. I guess that's why the US need 5 lanes roads everywhere: for bikes and emergency services vehicles.
What if people sold their verified ID status to spammers? People already sell their kidneys.
> Very little coverage of this bill passing in the UK mainstream media that I have seen.

because there's no opposition to it. everyone wants these rules. the opposition wants them strengthened for example. since there's no discord, there's really no news.